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Showing posts with label Durkin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Durkin. Show all posts
01 December 2021

The 1921 Globe 100 206: Don't Mention the War

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The Globe , 3 December 1921 The 1921 edition of 'Recent Books and the Outlook,' the  Globe's  annual list of best books, begins ...
21 December 2019

The Globe 100 One Hundred Years Ago: Poets are Struck Dumb and Capitalism Proves Embarrassing

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The Globe , 6 December 1919 Last month, the Globe & Mail published  'The Globe 100' , its annual list of the year's...
27 December 2018

Best Book Buys of 2018 (four of which were gifts)

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Twenty-eighteen was a year of great change. In April, we sold our home of ten years and started packing up our belongings. We moved in...
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17 December 2018

The Globe 100 179 of 1918

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One month after the Armistice, the post-war world is in many ways unrecognizable. Consider this from the front page of the December 7, 1...
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10 October 2015

Thanksgiving in the Midst of War

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'Thanksgiving' by Douglas Leader Durkin Canadian Poems of the Great War John W. Garvin, ed. Toronto: McClelland & Ste...
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04 August 2014

The Great War: The Call

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On this, the hundredth anniversary of Canada's entry into the Great War, patriotic verse drawn from Douglas Durkin's The Fighti...
06 January 2012

Mister Gumble Meets David Golder

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A brief follow-up, of sorts, to Monday's post on Mr. Gumble Sits Up . One keen-eyed friend notes that Irène Némirovsky's Davi...
02 January 2012

Dead Man Sitting

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Mr. Gumble Sits Up Douglas Durkin New York: Liveright, 1930 Back in 1930, when it received its first and only printing, Mr. Gumb...
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