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An essential showcase of the remarkable diversity and vitality of Canadian literature from the country's foundations to the present. Featuring over ninety of Canada's most outstanding writers, this revised fourth edition showcases Canadian literature from the eighteenth century to the present. Bringing together a wide range of short fiction, poetry, and settler narratives, this anthology includes the country's earliest English-language writers, beloved favourites, and important new writers.

Preface Introduction Saukamapee - [Life among the Peigans] Francis Brooke - The History of Emily Montague - Letter 1 - Letter 2 NEW - Letter 10 - Letter 11 - Letter 49 - Letter 80 - Letter 123 - Letter 127 - Letter 131 - Letter 169 Samuel Hearne - From A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean David Thompson - Narrative of His Explorations in Western North America, 1784-1812 - [Nahathaway Indians] - [Life Among the Nahathaways] John Franklin and Dr John Richardson - From Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819, 20, 21 and 22 Catharine Parr Traill - The Backwoods of Canada -- Letter IX -- Letter X -- Letter XII Susanna Moodie - Roughing It in the Bush -- Introduction to the Third Edition -- 1. A Visit to Grosse Isle -- 2. QuebecNEW -- 10. Brian, the Still-Hunter -- 22. The Fire -- 25. Adieu to the Woods Charles Sangster - The St. Lawrence and the Saguenay - Sonnets Written in the Orillia Woods Isabella Valancy Crawford - Malcolm's Katie: A Love Story - Esther - Canada to England - The Canoe Charles G.D. Roberts - Tantramar Revisited - The Mowing - In an Old Barn - The Flight of the Geese - The Skater - Going Over - As Down the Woodland Ways - Under the Ice-Roof Bliss Carman - Low Tide on Grand Pre - In the Workshop - Sappho LIII NEW - Sappho LXXIV NEW Sara Jeannette Duncan - The Heir Apparent Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) - The Song My Paddle Sings - His Majesty the West Wind - A Cry from an Indian Wife - The Flight of the Crows - Silhouette - 'Through Time and Bitter Distance' - The Lost Island Archibald Lampman - Heat - The Frogs - The Railway Station - In November - A Summer Dream - The City of the End of Things - Voices of Earth - Winter Evening - To a Millionaire Duncan Campbell Scott - At the Cedars - The Onondaga Madonna - Watkwenies - The Forsaken - The Battle of Lundy's Lane - To a Canadian Aviator Who Died for His Country in France Jessie Georgina Sime - Munitions! Stephen Leacock - Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town -- The Marine Excursion of the Knights of Pythias Nellie McClung - The Elusive Vote: An Unvarnished Tale of September 21st, 1911 E.J. Pratt - The Shark - Newfoundland - The Prize Cat - Come Away, Death - The Truant - Towards the Last Spike Marjorie Pickthall - The Bird in the Room - Made in His Image - Deborah NEW - The Third Generation Ethel Wilson - The Window F.R. Scott - The Canadian Authors Meet - Overture NEW - Lakeshore - Laurentian Shield NEW - W.L.M.K. - All the Spikes but the Last Harry Robinson - Coyote Challenges God A.J.M. Smith - The Lonely Land - Far West - Sea Cliff - On Reading an Anthology of Popular Poetry - The Wisdom of Old Jelly Roll - To Jay Macpherson on her Book of Poems NEW - News of the Phoenix NEW Morley Callaghan - Watching and Waiting Earle Birney - Vancouver Lights - Mappemounde NEW - The Ebb Begins from Dream - Pacific Door - Bushed - Can. Lit. - El Greco: Espolio - Buildings 2 NEW Sinclair Ross - The Runaway A.M. Klein - Reb Levi Yitschok Talks to God - Heirloom - Autobiographical NEW - Portrait of the Poet as Landscape - Meditation upon Survival NEW Dorothy Livesay - Green Rain - The Difference - Day and Night - The Three Emilys NEW - Bartok and the Geranium - On Looking into Henry Moore NEW - The Sybil NEW Anne Wilkinson - The Great Winds - Theme and Variation NEW - Easter Sketches, Montreal - In June and Gentle Oven - Lens NEW - Nature Be Damned Irving Layton - The Birth of Tragedy - The Cold Green Element - The Fertile Muck - Keine Lazarovitch 1870-1959 - Butterfly on Rock - A Tall Man Executes a Jig - O Jerusalem NEW Anne Marriott NEW - The Wind Our Enemy P.K. Page - The Stenographers NEW - Stories of Snow - Photos of a Salt Mine - Cry Ararat! - Arras - Evening Dance of the Grey Flies - The Gold Sun - Kaleidoscope - Unless the Eye Catch Fire Margaret Avison - The Butterfly - Perspective - Snow - Tennis - The Swimmer's Moment - We the Poor Who Are Always with Us - Poetry Is Al Purdy - The Country North of Belleville - Trees at the Arctic Circle - Wilderness Gothic - Lament for the Dorsets - At the Quinte Hotel - Roblin's Mills (2) - For Steve McIntyre - On the Flood Plain - Grosse Isle - Say the Names Mavis Gallant - Varieties of Exile Margaret Laurence - To Set Our House in Order James Reaney - The School Globe - The Lost Child - The Alphabet - Starling with a Split Tongue Phyllis Webb - Marvell's Garden - Poetics against the Angel of Death NEW - Naked Poems -- Suite I -- Suite II - The Making of a Japanese Print - Maureen Reading NEW Robert Kroetsch - Stone Hammer Poem NEW - Seed Catalogue Jay Macpherson NEW - The Thread - The Third Eye - The Old Enchanter - The Boatman - The Anagogic Man - The Fisherman - A World of Words - A Lost Soul - Visiting Alice Munro - The Progress of Love Alden Nowlan - Temptation - Country Full of Christmas - Canadian January Night - The Broadcaster's Poem - On the Barrens Leonard Cohen - You Have the Lovers - Suzanne Takes You Down - Everybody Knows - Anthem NEW - A Thousand Kisses Deep - Looking Through My Dreams Rudy Wiebe - Where Is the Voice Coming From? George Bowering - Against Description NEW - Kerrisdale Elegy Two Joy Kogawa - Obasan - Where There's a Wall - Road Building by Pick Axe - Minerals from Stone Carol Shields - Hazel Alistair MacLeod - As Birds Bring Forth the Sun Claire Harris - August - Black Sisyphus - Conception of Winter - To Dissipate Grief - No God Waits on Incense John Newlove - Four Small Scars - The Double-Headed Snake - Samuel Hearne in Wintertime - Ride Off Any Horizon - The Green Plain Margaret Atwood - This Is a Photograph of Me - Progressive Insanities of a Pioneer - The Journals of Susanna Moodie -- Disembarking at Quebec -- Further Arrivals -- Death of a Young Son by Drowning -- Dream 2: Brian the Still-Hunter -- Thoughts from Underground - Tricks with Mirrors - Siren Song - Spelling - Orpheus (2) - The Line: Five Variations - The Age of Lead - Hello, Martians. Let Moby-Dick Explain NEW Patrick Lane - Because I Never Learned - Stigmata - Winter -- Winter 1 -- Winter 22 -- Winter 35 -- Winter 40 - The Far Field - For Gwendolyn MacEwen - The Sooke Potholes - Scarify NEW - Soft and Moist, Hard and Dry NEW Dennis Lee - Civil Elegy I NEW - Sibelius Park - The Coat - When I Went Up to Rosedale - Hunger - Hiatus - Tale Fred Wah - [waiting for Saskatchewan] - From Diamond Grill Maria Campbell - Jacob Gwendolyn MacEwen - Icarus - Manzini: Escape Artist - The Portage - Dark Pines under Water - The Real Enemies - The Death of the Loch Ness Monster - Polaris Don McKay - Kestrels - Twinflower - Short Fat Flicks - Homing - Icarus - Astonished - - Pond - Gneiss - Forlorn NEW - Angel of Extinction NEW Daphne Marlatt - Imagine: a town - coming home - winter/ rice/ tea strain - listen - (is love enough?) Michael Ondaatje - The Time around Scars - Letters and Other Worlds - Pig Glass - Light - The Cinnamon Peeler - To a Sad Daughter - The Medieval Coast - Wells Thomas King - A Coyote Columbus Story bpNichol - The Martyrology -- Book 1: 'The Sorrows of Saint Orm' -- Book 3, Section VIII -- Book 5, Chain 8 - landscape (I) - lament Bronwen Wallace - A Simple Poem for Virginia Woolf NEW - The Woman in This Poem - Joseph Macleod Daffodils - The Watermelon Incident - Songbirds and Hurtin' Songs - An Easy Life Robert Bringhurst - Essay on Adam - Leda and the Swan - These Poems, She Said - The Reader - Bone Flute Breathing Lorna Crozier - This One's for You - Forms of Innocence - Getting Pregnant - On the Seventh Day - The Old Order - At the Millstone - The Sacrifice of Abraham - The Sacrifice of Isaac - Midnight Watch NEW - The Mask NEW Jane Urquhart - The Drawing Master Anne Carson - Book of Isaiah - TV Men: Hektor Barbara Gowdy - Presbyterian Crosswalk M.G. Vassanji - Her Two Husbands Guy Vanderhaeghe - Man on Horseback Rohinton Mistry - Swimming Lessons Dionne Brand - No Language Is Neutral -- Blues Spiritual for Mammy Prater NEW -- hard against the soul X - Land to Light On -- I Have Been Losing Roads -- Land to Light On: V Marilyn Dumont NEW - let the ponies out - a bowl of smooth brown wood - Letter to Sir John A. MacDonald - house, broken - will I, night - this, is for the wives - I wanted to treat them as we would have treated buffalo - these are wintering words Erin Moure - Blindness - Miss Chatelaine - Seebe - Dream of the Towns - Amygdala - Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person -- VII From Garrison Creek I see the earth to the antipodes of the Universe . . . -- XX The Humber is pretty fabulous, really -- XXXI If at times I claim flowers smile and rivers sing Jan Zwicky - Bill Evans: 'Here's That Rainy Day' - Transparence - Driving Northwest - String Practice - Robinson's Crossing - Small Song: Prairie NEW - Small Song: Mozart NEW - Song of Farewell NEW Anne Michaels - Lake of Two Rivers - Flowers - There Is No City That Does Not Dream - Repairing the Octave NEW - Ask Aloud NEW George Elliott Clarke -- The Adoration of Shelley --- The Argument --- The River Pilgrim: A Letter --- Rose Vinegar --- Bees' Wings --- Blank Sonnet --- The Wisdom of Shelley --- Each Moment Is Magnificent - Primitivism - Nu(is)ance - Mortality Sonnet Caroline Adderson NEW - Shhh: 3 Stories about Silence Lisa Moore - Craving Michael Crummey NEW - Cod (1) - Cod (2) - Bread - Patience - Watermark - Getting the Marriage into Bed - Keel - After Image Christian Bok - Crystals - Eunoia -- Chapter O - Vowels - The Nocturne of Orpheus Michael Redhill - The Flesh Collectors Karen Solie NEW - Sturgeon - Gopher - Chance - Determinism - Your Premiums Will Never Increase - Tractor - The World - Via Eden Robinson - Queen of the North Ken Babstock - Marsh Theatre - Regenerative - To Willow - Essentialist - The World's Hub - Compatibilist - Ledger NEW Wayde Compton - The Blue Road: A Fairy Tale - The Reinventing Wheel David Bezmozgis NEW - Roman Berman, Massage Therapist Madeleine Thien - Simple Recipes Heather O'Neill NEW - Messages in Bottles Acknowledgements Index

Donna Bennett and Russell M. Brown are retired faculty of the University of Toronto, Department of English.