Canadian Poetry Brochure (PDF) - ProQuest

Subject: Literature and Language
Content: 400 years of Canadian
poetry, from colonial days to the
early 20th century
Canadian poetry
Format: Full text on the Web,
CD-ROM due 2003
Why it’s unique:
• 400 years of Canadian poetry
• 19,000 poetic works, 680 printed
sources, 179 writers
• Author biographies
• Works and authors reviewed by
an Editorial Board
• Easy searching
CHADWYCK-HEALEY
Here industry is not in vain,
For we have bounteous crops of grain,
And you behold on every field,
Of grass and roots abundant yield.
But after all the greatest charm
Is the snug home upon the farm,
And the stone walls now keep cattle warm.
—James mC intyre
400 years of Canadian poets
and their works now available
online

Tap into an unmatched online resource for
Canadian poetry with the Chadwyck-Healey
Canadian Poetry database.
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Canadian Poetry charts the formation of Canadian poetry over a
period of some 400 years, opening with the writings of colonists
and reluctant exiles and ending in the early 20 th century. It offers
the full text of almost 19,000 poetic works by 179 writers drawn
from over 680 printed sources, as well as author biographies.
Authors in Canadian Poetry include Bliss Carman,Wilfred
Campbell, Isabella Valancy Crawford, Archibald Lampman,
Alexander McLachlan, and many others.The collection is a
comprehensive, fully cross-searchable survey of an important body
of writing, much of which is not widely available in print.
Canadian Poetry has been produced in
collaboration with the University of New
Brunswick (UNB) and reflects the strengths
of UNB’s unique holdings of Englishlanguage
Canadian verse. All poems
published in book form are included,
taking reliable modern critical editions
where available. For poems up to 1850,
broadsheet and serial publications are
included; in certain cases such publications
occurring after 1850 are also included.
Quality Content To ensure the
quality and accuracy of the content, all
authors and works in Canadian Poetry
were selected under the guidance of an
Editorial Board of leading scholars. The
Editorial Board includes:
Sandra Alston Canadiana specialist in the
University of Toronto Library
Jennifer Andrews Assistant Professor of
Canadian Literature at the University of
New Brunswick
Gwendolyn Davies Head of English at the
University of Acadia
Mary Jane Edwards Member of English
Department at Carleton University
Carole Gerson Member of the Board of
the Canadian Institute for Historical
MicroReproduction
Ross Leckie Director of Creative Writing
at the University of New Brunswick
Victor J. Ramraj Professor of English at
the University of Calgary
Kathleen Scherf Dean of the Faculty of
General Studies and Professor of
Canadian Studies at the University of
Calgary
Thomas B. Vincent Professor of English
and Head of the English Department at
the Royal Military College of Canada
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The Canadian Poetry
database includes the bestknown
Canadian poets,
along with their lesserknown
colleagues.
Sophisticated Searching
Options A variety of searching
capabilities allows researchers to find
information quickly and easily. Canadian
Poetry is searchable by:
• Keyword in the title or text
• First line of title keyword
• Poet
• Period
• Gender
• Dates of birth and death
Cross-searching the database allows
researchers to study and compare
different writings and time periods in
Canadian poetry history. For example, a
searcher can trace the changing
preoccupation with the Canadian
landscape over the centuries, or the move
away from British literary models to the
development of recognizably Canadian
poetic forms and styles.
Users can also browse the complete list of
texts arranged alphabetically by author
and volume, and then select any author or
volume for display. In addition, researchers
can browse lists of all authors, titles, and
first lines in the collection, as well as a
complete index of all the words in the
texts, titles, and first lines. Truncation
searching can be used to retrieve
documents containing variants on a term.
Searches can also be customized using
Boolean and proximity operators.
For More Information Canadian
Poetry is available as a complete, standalone
database, and as an integrated part
of Literature Online—the leading online
resource for English and American
literature.
To learn more about Canadian Poetry and
to sign up for a free trial, call your account
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