reviews

Bookstores specializing in out-of-print items may feel done out of a good thing, but readers of poetry, students of American literature, and Thoreau specialists and enthusiasts will be delighted that this edition of Thoreau's poems and poetic fragments, first published in 1943 but long unavailable, has been brought back in print in an expanded form.

Reuben A. Brower's book, The Poetry of Robert Frost: Constellations of Intention, is the best introduction to Frost for the general reader so far avaliable.

Most great poems deal with human concerns.

These two books come from opposite sides of the country: Vancouver and Montreal.

Even in a predominantly agricultural society, the limiting of the presentation of a foreign literature to one narrow movement cannot be justified.

Some books of poems yield enjoyment less readily than others.

The debt which Canada owes to their Jewish citizens in the creation of literature is staggering.

As early as 1919 William Carlos Williams wrote that technique must be the poet's Bible.

It will be interesting to see how this posthumous collection of Robinson Jeffers' poetry makes out among the reviewers and the prize committees.

Colin Haworth's six expressionist drawings that accompany the forty poems in this book are curiously appropriate