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The Beginnings of a National Literary Tradition
Canadians throughout their history have been concerned over the
status of their national literature. One of the major problems facing
early Canadian writers was that the language and poetic conventions that
they had inherited from the Old World were inadequate fo ....
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.... and create a ‘national' literature. According to
R.E.Rashley in Poetry in Canada: The First Three Steps " there is no
Canadian poetry before [The Confederation Poets] time"(98). These men were
the first in a long line of authors and artists to conceive of the need for
a discernible national literature. The Confederation Poets function was to
"explore the new knowledge that they had acquired of themselves that had
been created by the interaction of environment and people and the concept
of evolutionary growth"(Rashley 98). Archibald Lampman was a key note in
the beginnings of a natio ....
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