By Aubrey Beardsley, completed by John Glassco. (Olympia Press , 1959). The English Governess. By Miles Underwood [pseud.]. (Olympia Press , 1960). English Poetry in Quebec. Proceedings of the Foster Poetry Conference 12–14, 1963.
Author: John Glassco
Publisher: The Porcupine's Quill
ISBN: 9780889844421
Category: Poetry
Page: 68
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Despite his reputation as Canada’s dandy-poet and his approach to writing as ‘a challenge best overcome by panache’, John Glassco’s poems demonstrate a seemingly incongruous preoccupation with rural life and an intense interest in decline, dilapidation and despair. Plagued by chronic self-doubt and the fear of wasting literary effort, Glassco explored, through his poems, ‘graveyards minding their business’, buildings ‘long in standing, longer still in falling’, and the toil of ‘hope battered into habit, and a habit / Running to weariness’. The result is a selection of work that features syntactic daring, a somewhat anachronistic pleasure in constructedness and a compulsion to turn feelings of unsuitability into art. The Essential Poets Series presents the works of Canada’s most celebrated poets in a package that is beautiful, accessible and affordable. The Essential John Glassco is the twenty-third volume in the increasingly popular series.