A World of Songs

Selected Poems, 1894-1921

L.M. Montgomery (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2019
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-2369-5 (ISBN)

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This book collects a sample of fifty poems by L.M. Montgomery originally published in periodicals across a quarter of a century. It discusses this work in the context of early Canadian poetry and North American periodical culture of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.

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.

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.

Acknowledgments
A Note on the Author
Abbreviations
Preface

Overture
The Gable Window

Prelude
The Poet’s Thought

Songs of Place
In Lovers’ Lane
The Fir Lane
In an Old Garden
The Old Home Calls
The Exile
The Summons

Songs of Memory
Three Days
Companioned
Do You Remember?
Memory Pictures

Interlude
The Singer

Songs of Lamentation
Irrevocable
I Would Be Well
Night Watches
If I Had Known
The Book
Longing
The Mother

Songs of War
The Last Prayer
The Three Songs
We Who Wait
Our Women

Interlude
One of the Shepherds

Songs of Land and Sea
When the Fishing Boats Go Out
When the Fishing Boats Come In
Rain in the Woods
My Pictures
The Wind in the Poplars
The Sea-Shell
Before Storm
A Shore Picture
The Sea to the Shore

Songs of Death
Too Late
I Have Buried My Dead
Omega
An Old Man’s Grave
The Treasures

Songs of Love
If Love Should Come
Assurance
The Gray Silk Gown
On the Bridge
Gratitude
With Tears They Buried You To-day
Forever
To One Hated
The Lover’s Catechism

Postlude
The Poet

Coda
What I Would Ask of Life

Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index by Title
Index by Date
Index by First Line

Erscheinungsdatum	30.01.2019
Reihe/Serie	The L.M. Montgomery Library
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	220 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4875-2369-6 / 1487523696
ISBN-13	978-1-4875-2369-5 / 9781487523695
Zustand	Neuware