Reading and Resituating Charles Sangster’s The St. Lawrence and the Saguenay as a Canadian Pilgrimage Poem

Developing on 150 years of reviews and scholarship of Charles Sangster’s The St. Lawrence and the Saguenay, this paper contends that Sangster’s poem is not merely derivative of British and American Romantic poetry, or a vague tourist poem, but that Sangster employs the language and images of Chri...

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Main Author: Shoshannah Ganz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of English Studies 2018-10-01
Series:Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
Online Access:http://www.anglica.ia.uw.edu.pl/images/pdf/27-1-articles/Anglica-27-1-3-Ganz.pdf
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Summary:Developing on 150 years of reviews and scholarship of Charles Sangster’s The St. Lawrence and the Saguenay, this paper contends that Sangster’s poem is not merely derivative of British and American Romantic poetry, or a vague tourist poem, but that Sangster employs the language and images of Christian pilgrimage to purposefully detail the pilgrimage of his soul.
ISSN:0860-5734
0860-5734