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Book SynopsisCelebrated as a novelist and made famous by her novel Anne of Green Gables and its sequels, L.M. Montgomery (18741942) is far less known for also writing and publishing hundreds of poems over a period of half a century.Although this output included a chapbook and a full-length collection in which she presented herself primarily as a nature poet, most of her poems appeared in periodicals, including women’s magazines, farm papers, faith-based periodicals, daily and weekly newspapers, and magazines for children. As a shrewd businesswoman, she learned to find the balance between literary quality and commercial saleability and continued to publish poetry even though it paid less than short fiction.
A World of Songs: Selected Poems, 18941921, the second volume in The L.M. Montgomery Library, gathers a selection of fifty poems originally published across a twenty-five-year period. Benjamin Lefebvre organizes this work within the context of Montgomery’
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"The collection of fifty poems published over a twenty-five-year period, beginning in 1894 with the first, is not only the second volume in The L.M. Montgomery Library but a step in a major reconsideration of her poetry." -- Anne Burke * Prairie Journal *
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments A Note on the Author Abbreviations Preface Overture The Gable Window Prelude The Poet’s Thought Songs of Place In Lovers’ Lane The Fir Lane In an Old Garden The Old Home Calls The Exile The Summons Songs of Memory Three Days Companioned Do You Remember? Memory Pictures Interlude The Singer Songs of Lamentation Irrevocable I Would Be Well Night Watches If I Had Known The Book Longing The Mother Songs of War The Last Prayer The Three Songs We Who Wait Our Women Interlude One of the Shepherds Songs of Land and Sea When the Fishing Boats Go Out When the Fishing Boats Come In Rain in the Woods My Pictures The Wind in the Poplars The Sea-Shell Before Storm A Shore Picture The Sea to the Shore Songs of Death Too Late I Have Buried My Dead Omega An Old Man’s Grave The Treasures Songs of Love If Love Should Come Assurance The Gray Silk Gown On the Bridge Gratitude With Tears They Buried You To-day Forever To One Hated The Lover’s Catechism Postlude The Poet Coda What I Would Ask of Life Afterword Notes Bibliography Index by Title Index by Date Index by First Line
