Charles Heavysege: 3 books
Saul and Selected Poems
including excerpts from Jephthah's Daughter and Jezebel: A Poem in Three Cantos
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1976
Saul and Selected Poems is an original and useful introduction to the work and poetic personality of Charles Heavysege (1816-76), an important but currently neglected nineteenth-century Canadian writer. Heavysege was handicapped by a limited education and a lack of public support, yet nonetheless...
Saul
A Drama, in Three Parts (Second Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
Charles Heavysege's chief and best-known work, the long-verse drama and tragedy Saul, was published in Montreal in 1857. Coventry Patmore, reviewing Saul in the North British Review, ranked it as the greatest English poem published outside Great Britain. Hawthorne, Emerson, and Longfellow were all...
The Advocate
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
The Advocate, an historical melodramatic romance in prose, which makes use of English and French antagonisms in Lower Canada.