A World of Songs: Selected Poems, 1894-1921 Contributor(s): Montgomery, L. M. (Author), Lefebvre, Benjamin (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1487505094 ISBN-13: 9781487505097 Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: January 2019 Click for more in this series: L.M. Montgomery Library |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Canadian - Literary Criticism | Women Authors - Poetry | American - General |
Dewey: 811.52 |
Series: L.M. Montgomery Library |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.6" W x 8.6" L (0.70 lbs) 160 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - Canadian |
Features: Bibliography |
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Publisher Description: Celebrated as a novelist and made famous by her novel Anne of Green Gables and its sequels, L.M. Montgomery (1874-1942) is far less known for also writing and publishing hundreds of poems over a period of half a century.Although this output included a chapbook and a full-length collection in which she presented herself primarily as a nature poet, most of her poems appeared in periodicals, including women's magazines, farm papers, faith-based periodicals, daily and weekly newspapers, and magazines for children. As a shrewd businesswoman, she learned to find the balance between literary quality and commercial saleability and continued to publish poetry even though it paid less than short fiction. A World of Songs: Selected Poems, 1894-1921, the second volume in The L.M. Montgomery Library, gathers a selection of fifty poems originally published across a twenty-five-year period. Benjamin Lefebvre organizes this work within the context of Montgomery's life and career, claiming her not only as a nature poet but also as the author of a wider range of songs: of place, of memory, of lamentation, of war, of land and sea, of death, and of love. Many of these poems echo motifs that readers of Montgomery's novels will recognize, and many more explore surprising perspectives through the use of male speakers. These poems offer today's readers a new facet of the career of Canada's most enduringly popular author. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lefebvre, Benjamin: - Benjamin Lefebvre, editor of The L.M. Montgomery Library, is director of L.M. Montgomery Online. His publications include an edition of Montgomery's rediscovered final book, The Blythes Are Quoted, and the three-volume critical anthology The L.M. Montgomery Reader, which won the 2016 PROSE Award for Literature from the Association of American Publishers. He lives in Kitchener, Ontario. |
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