90 - Frank Oliver Call: Bridging Victorian & Modernist Poetry

A Cultural History of Canada

In which Patrick lectures by himself about a poet whose work, Acanthus & Wild Grape, actively tried to bring Canadian poetry into the realm of modern sensibilities. --- Support: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/historiacanadiana); Paypal (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/historiacanadiana); recommended reading (https://historiacanadiana.wordpress.com/books/) --- Contact: [e-mail]; Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CanLitHistory). --- Sources/Further Reading

• Avrum Malus, Diane Allard and Maria Van Sundert. “Frank Oliver Call, Eastern Townships Poetry, and the Modernist Movement,” Canadian Literature 107, 1985.

• Call, Frank Oliver. Acanthus & Wild Grape, McClelland & Stewart, 1920.

• Trehearne, Brian (editor). Canadian Poetry, 1920 to 1960, McClelland & Stewart, 2010.

• Beattie, Munro. “Poetry: 1920-1935.” Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English (Second Edition) Volume II, edited by Alfred G. Bailey et al., University of Toronto Press, 1976, pp. 234–53.