Tag: criticism
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The Poetical Review: a Brief Notice of Canadian Poets and Poetry by A.C. Stewart
[excerpt, p. 16-17] Where wild Niagara hurls his torrents down A poet dwells who wears a sanguine crown ; There Kirby with his strong and graphic pen Shall rouse the warring legions up again : — English and French, and Redmen, marshalled are, And shake the plains, beneath the shock of war, Yet not the…
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Celebrating National Poetry Month With a Niagara Falls Flavour by Alison Langley
Alison Langley, a reporter for the Niagara Falls Review has written an article about Andrew Porteus and the Niagara Falls Poetry Project to help celebrate National Poetry Month. The article has been reprinted below. See the original article here As the former manager of adult reference and information services at Niagara Falls Public Library, Andrew…
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Apostrophe to Niagara by Frank B. Palmer
palmer This is Jehovah’s fullest organ strain! ‡‡I hear the liquid music rolling, breaking. From the gigantic pipes the great refrain ‡‡Bursts on my ravished ear, high thoughts awaking! The low sub-bass, uprising from the deep, ‡‡Swells the great paean as it rolls supernal — Anon, I hear, at one majestic sweep ‡‡The diapason of…