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Poems and Essays

Poems and Essays

Howe, Joseph
Parks, M. G.

Paperback

Series: Heritage

Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0802062083
ISBN13: 9780802062086
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Dec 15 1973
Pages: 376
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.78 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

This volume, containing a selection of the poetry and prose of Joseph Howe, presents various aspects of a fascinating man who few Canadian know as other than the 'tribune of Nova Scotia' and a political giant of colonial times. Yet Howe was also a writer, and a good one. His intuitive grasp and pragmatic skill in political affairs were combined with wide-ranging intellectual curiosity, strong moral idealism, and a lively imagination. He revealed a vigorous strength in journalism and politics, in public life in general, and in his prose. His poetry admittedly was minor and colonial -- he cultivated eighteenth-century verse models and habits of diction, which made him a second-generation Romantic in attitude and tone rather than in style -- and its merit, according to David Munroe, Dalhousie Review, 1941, 'lies principally in the deep sincerity which is characteristic of all good verse.' However, to understand the man and his times it is essential to understand the full extent of his endeavours; hence the significance of this book.

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