With Occasional Critical and Biographical Notes and an Introductory Essay on Canadian Poetry
by
Edward Dewart, Douglas Lochhead
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
Selections from Canadian Poets set an important precedent when it was published in 1864. It was the first anthology of native Canadian poetry and was compiled, as Edward Hartlet Dewart explained, in order to 'rescue from oblivion some of the floating pieces of Canadian authorship worthy of preservation...