George Whalley, The Collected Poems of George Whalley

Michael DiSanto (Algoma University College)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.2: Canadian Writing and Culture (Anglophone): The Twentieth Century and beyond, 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1986

Places

Canada (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Poem collection

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George Johnston edited

The Collected Poems of George Whalley

following Whalley’s death in 1983. The book reprints all of the poems in the two books Whalley published in his lifetime,

Poems 1939-1944

(1946) and

No Man An Island

(1948). It also includes a selection of previously published and unpublished poems. Of the poems collected here for the first time the majority were written in the 1950s and the 1960s. In a review of the book, David Lewis calls Whalley “one of Canada’s most distinguished poets”, whose verse reveals a writer “of unique genius” (Lewis 1987, 730, 732).

The book is organized in three sections. In the first, Johnston reproduces No Man An Island with its three-part structure and its order of poems. The second section includes eight pieces from Poems 1939-1944.

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Citation: DiSanto, Michael. "The Collected Poems of George Whalley". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 December 2013 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=33212, accessed 25 April 2024.]

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