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Showing posts with label Gay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gay. Show all posts
13 April 2022

Ten Poems for National Poetry Month, Number 5: 'Sad End of a Noted Politician' by James MacRae

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For the month,  the fifth of ten poems I  find interesting, amusing, and/or infuriating. To think I once worked to celebrate this horrible m...
30 April 2015

The Murder of George Brown: He Died with Grit

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I could not let National Poetry Month pass without presenting verse by James Gay, Poet Laureate of Canada (self-proclaimed) and Master ...
25 December 2014

Christmas Verse by Master of All Poets James Gay

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For the day, Victorian verse from Canada's Poet by James Gay, self-proclaimed  Master of All Poets and Poet Laureate of Canada , of...
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13 April 2014

Gay on Sunday: The Temperance Poems

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Teetotalism trickles as gentle, concordant music through the verse of our James Gay. No Carrie Nation, the man abhorred violence. True, ...
06 April 2014

Gay on Sunday: Yet Another Attack on Tennyson

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from Canada's Poet  James Gay London: Field & Tuer, [1885?] Related post: The Master of All Poets Outlives Longfell...
02 April 2014

The Master of All Poets Outlives Longfellow, Writes Victoria, Takes on Tennyson and Calls for a Vote

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With National Poetry Month in its second day, Is it not time to celebrate James Gay? The first Poet Laureate of Canada (by his own ac...
20 March 2013

Guelph: City of Galt, Gay, Glyn, Graves and Girdles

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March Break. Others head south and we go to Guelph. I've never been much taken with March Break; spring seems so fleeting and I d...
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01 November 2011

'November the First' by the Master of All Poets

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One of the more restrained poems composed as "a truthful guide" by James Gay, self-proclaimed Poet Laureate of Canada and Master o...
23 May 2011

Verse for Victoria Day by the Master of All Poets

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Queen's Park, Toronto, 1910 James Gay (1810-1891) was a gunsmith, a locksmith, a carpenter and an innkeeper; but more than all th...