Poets of the Country

At long last, a literary historian charts the distant beginnings of CanLit.

W. J. Keith

The Confederation Group of Canadian Poets, 1880-1897

D.M.R. Bentley

University of Toronto Press

411 pages, hardcover

ISBN: 0802087396

W. J. Keith

W.J. Keith is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Toronto. His publications include Canadian Literature in English (1985, 2006) and Canadian Odyssey: A Reading of Hugh Hood’s “The New Age/Le nouveau siècle” (2002).

Operative Words

Snuffed Torch

Lax Americana

Poets of the Country

At long last, a literary historian charts the distant beginnings of CanLit.