274E sites

Sample Mid-Term Exam from Last Year (with sample responses)
Fall Term Essay Topics
Keywords: catch-up

Literary Review of Canada
"THE 100 MOST IMPORTANT CANADIAN BOOKS EVER WRITTEN"

Explorers
Exploration Routes: Kelsey, Hearne

Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill
See the National Library of Canada's Moodie-Traill web site
Hogarth's etching "Gin Lane"

Wacousta
The Seige of Detroit (maps, images)
Pontiac's Rebellion
The Huron Gaol (panopticon)

Charles G.D. Roberts
The Tantramar Marshes
Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey"
Swinburne's "Hesperia"
Definition: the Greater Romantic Lyric

Archibald Lampman
Wordsworth's "The World is Too Much with Us"

Duncan Campbell Scott
Wordsworth's "The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman"

Ernest Thompson Seton
Anandale House, Tillsonburg (aesthetic movement home)

Pauline Johnson
Visit the Pauline Johnson Archive for photos, quicktime images, etc.
Visit the Chiefswood National Historic Site for more photos and images of Johnson's refurbished home.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Visit the CBC Montgomery web site for video & audio clips, images, etc.
Visit the Confederation Centre Montgomery web site for images of Montgomeery's scrapbooks

FR Scott

Bibliography from Erin Parker's lecture
CBC website with video and audio clips on William Lyon MacKenzie King
The Canadian Author's Association's response to Scott
Scott quotation from The Canadian Forum

AJM Smith
A.J.M. Smith, "Wanted: Canadian Criticism."
H.D.'s poem "Oread"

View some influential Canadian paintings relevant to Smith & Scott:
Tom Thompson's "The Jack Pine",
J.E.H. MacDonald's "The Solemn Land"
J.E.H. MacDonald's "The Lonely North"
F.H. Varley's "Stormy Weather, Georgian Bay"

Dorothy Livesay
lyrics for Cole Porter's song "Night and Day"
images from Charlie Chaplin's film Modern Times
images from Fritz Lang's film Metropolis
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) on Work, from The Prophet
Weevils in the Flour
The story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego (from the Book of Daniel)
Lyrics for Louis Armstrong's Shadrak
Louis Armstrong performs Shadrak

A.M. Klein
Klein's marginal note on "Portrait of the Poet as Landscape"
Milton's "Lycidas"
Visit Kahnawake.

Barometer Rising
visit the CBC's Halifax explosion web site; watch the Historica minute video
Creighton's Laurentian Thesis

P.K. Page
See paintings by P.K. Irwin.
See images of the Glass House Mountains.

Al Purdy
Visit the CBC's Al Purdy site.

Robert Kroetsch
Visit an on-line seed catalogue.
Quotations.

Margaret Atwood
Visit the CBC's Margaret Atwood site.

Joy Kogawa
Visit a web site on Kogawa's works and homestead.