{"product_id":"9781487589950","title":"Saul and Selected Poems: including excerpts from Jephthah's Daughter and Jezebel: A Poem in Three Cantos","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSaul and Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e is an original and useful introduction to the work and poetic personality of Charles Heavysege (1816-76), an important but currently neglected nineteenth-century Canadian writer. Heavysege was handicapped by a limited education and a lack of public support, yet nonetheless established himself in Great Britain and America as the 'leading intellect of [the] Dominion' in a period when native literature was scantily regarded. His struggle to express himself and to find an audience for his work mirrors the dilemma of the émigré writer of his time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHeavysege's work is related in this volume to the early nineteenth-century English revival of poetic drama, and seen in the context of the Canadian cultural milieu of the 1860s. Saul is a powerful presentation of the tormented soul caught in a world of order and universal degree. Its main interest is to be found in the psychological frankness - Saul's recognition of his demon resonates with the deeper implication of the recognition of the \u003cem\u003edöppelgänger\u003c\/em\u003e - and in passages of sinewy verse written with a directness that anticipates E.J. Pratt.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe text of \u003cem\u003eSaul \u003c\/em\u003eand 'Jezebel,' selections from Jephthah's Daughter, an original commentary on the major poems, a bibliography, and a review of Heavysege criticism are all included in this volume. (Literature of Canada 19)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47166029398256,"sku":"9781487589950","price":86.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781487589950_p0.jpg?v=1763636527","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781487589950","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}