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The First Day of Spring : Stories and Other Prose
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Raymond Knister had a strong sense of commitment both to his own career and to literature, particularly Canadian literature. In his ten working years he proved himself a prolific writer with wide-r...
Raymond Knister had a strong sense of commitment both to his own career and to literature, particularly Canadian literature. In his ten working years he proved himself a prolific writer with wide-ranging interests. Although his work has appeared in many anthologies of Canadian literature, there remains a great deal of out of print or unpublished material. This volume brings together not only for his more well-known stories but also all his unpublished stories, a few travel pieces, and several examples of his literary criticism. Knister's stories are often strongly regional, and draw on rural Ontario for their setting and characters. Collected together here for the first time is a group of sketches dealing anecdotally with life in a village in southwestern Ontario. Also included are two stories arising from his experiences as a cab driver in Chicago in the 1920s, 'Innocent Man,' and 'Hackman's Night.' His essays focusing on literary matters and the traditions and problems of Canadian literature show a keenly critical mind. The First Day of Spring is an important rediscovery of one of Canada's best writers of the 1920s.
Details
- Creator
- Raymond Knister; Douglas Lochhead
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
- ©1976
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (503 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9781487591007, 1487591004, 9781487589387, 1487589387, 0802061982
- OCLC
- on1091707616, on1006420176
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- In English.
- Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- A Note on the Text -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Stories -- The First Day of Spring -- Peaches, Peaches -- Mist Green Oats -- The Loading -- Indian Summer -- Grapes -- Lilacs for First Love -- Horace the Haymow -- The Return of the Nances -- The One Thing -- The Practical Wife -- The Fate of Mrs Lucier -- The Strawstack -- Elaine -- Hackman's Night -- Innocent Man -- SKETCHES: CORNCOB CORNERS AND OTHER PLACES -- Harvest Home Supper at Birdseye Centre -- Christmas at Corncob Corners -- The Dance at Corncob Corners -- Some Folks of Our Village -- Mrs Plethwick was a Citizen -- The Rewards of Blankenhorn -- Laying a Ghost -- Heart of Ironwood Tea -- A Row of Horse Stalls -- Hitching Bertha to the Sleigh -- Trying to Please the Ladies -- No Gumption -- A Boy's Girl -- The Furnace Causes Warmth -- I Buy a Dog - Almost -- Criticism -- Canadian Letter -- A Poet in Arms for Poetry -- The Canadian Short Story -- Introduction to Canadian Short Stories -- Duncan Campbell Scott -- Letter to Miss Frankfurth -- The Poetic Fruition of Ireland -- A Great Poet of To-day: Edwin Arlington Robinson -- A Shropshire Lad -- Katherine Mansfield -- Frederick Philip Grove: A Canadian of Canadians -- The Poetical Works of Wilfred Campbell -- The Poetry of Archibald Lampman