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George Woodcock: Collected editorials from Canadian Literature
Compiled and edited by Canadian Literature's Glenn Deer (Associate editor, poetry) and Matthew Gruman (Marketing and Communications), this collection contains all the editorials George Woodcock wrote during his tenure as editor and "Balancing the Yin and the Yang,"; written as a guest editorial in 1992. Also included are Alan Twigg's "In Praise of an Omnivorous Intelligence"; and Glenn Deer's "Alive to Unfashionable Possibilities: Reading Woodcock's Collected Editorials";-two tributes written specifically for this edition.
George Woodcock: Collected editorials from Canadian Literature is available in the EPUB format (list of supported devices), and will soon be available for the Amazon Kindle.
Table of Contents
1."In Praise of an Omnivorous Intelligence"; by Alan Twigg
2."Alive to Unfashionable Possibilities: Reading Woodcock's Collected Editorials"; by Glenn Deer
3."First Issue of Canadian Literature."; Canadian Literature #1, Summer 1959
4."Aeropagitica re-written."; Canadian Literature #2, Autumn 1959
5."A Time of Projects."; Canadian Literature #3, Winter 1960
6."On the Cultivation of Laurels."; Canadian Literature #4, Spring 1960
7."Summer Thought."; Canadian Literature #5, Summer 1960
8."Honours and Awards."; Canadian Literature #6, Autumn 1960
9."A Record Writ in Air."; Canadian Literature #7, Winter 1961
10."Under Seymour Mountain."; Canadian Literature #8, Spring 1961
11."Shoots from an Old Tree."; Canadian Literature #9, Summer 1961
12."The Muse of Politics."; Canadian Literature #10, Autumn 1961
13."Remote Reflections."; Canadian Literature #11, Winter 1962
14."Reflections in the Chartroom."; Canadian Literature #12, Spring 1962
15."Celebrations of Harvest."; Canadian Literature #13, Summer 1962
16."Cautious Inevitability."; Canadian Literature #14, Autumn 1962
17."Smith's Hundred."; Canadian Literature #15, Winter 1963
18."Salt and Savour."; Canadian Literature #16, Spring 1963
19."A Spectre is Haunting Canada."; Canadian Literature #17, Summer 1963
20."A Commonwealth of Literatures."; Canadian Literature #18, Autumn 1963
21."Titanic, but Not Olympian."; Canadian Literature #19, Winter 1964
22."Problems of Equilibrium."; Canadian Literature #20, Spring 1964
23."On the Divide."; Canadian Literature #21, Summer 1964
24."Uncommercial Voices."; Canadian Literature #22, Autumn 1964
25."Surveyors and Natural Historians."; Canadian Literature #23, Winter 1965
26."Canadian Biography."; Canadian Literature #24, Spring 1965
27."Trans-Pacific Greetings: Meanjin's 100th Issue."; Canadian Literature #25, Summer 1965
28."Biographical First Fruits."; Canadian Literature #28, Spring 1966
29."Paperbacks and Respectable Pickpockets."; Canadian Literature #29, Summer 1966
30."George Kuthan."; Canadian Literature #30, Autumn 1966
31."Canadian Literature and the Centennial."; Canadian Literature #31, Winter 1967
32."To Other Editors."; Canadian Literature #32, Spring 1967
33."Preface to a Symposium."; Canadian Literature #33, Summer 1967
34."Expanding Vistas."; Canadian Literature #34, Autumn 1967
35."About Biographies."; Canadian Literature #36, Spring 1968
36."Awards and Initiatives."; Canadian Literature #37, Summer 1968
37."World in Microcosm."; Canadian Literature #38, Autumn 1968
38."Momaco Revisited."; Canadian Literature #35, Winter 1968
39."Centrifugal Publishing."; Canadian Literature #39, Winter 1969
40."Sparrows and Eagles."; Canadian Literature #40, Spring 1969
41."Getting away with Survival."; Canadian Literature #41, Summer 1969
42."An Absence of Utopias."; Canadian Literature #42, Autumn 1969
43."Arts in the Politician's Eye."; Canadian Literature #43, Winter 1970
44."The Absorption of Echoes."; Canadian Literature #44, Spring 1970
45."Permutations of Politics."; Canadian Literature #45, Summer 1970
46."The Frontiers of Literature."; Canadian Literature #46, Autumn 1970
47."New Directions in Publishing."; Canadian Literature #47, Winter 1971
48."New Trends in Publishing (2)."; Canadian Literature #48, Spring 1971
49."Criticism and Other Arts."; Canadian Literature #49, Summer 1971
50."Swarming of Poets."; Canadian Literature #50, Autumn 1971
51."The Craft of History."; Canadian Literature #51, Winter 1972
52."Give The Corporation a Compass!."; Canadian Literature #52, Spring 1972
53."Or Every Bellows Burst..."; Canadian Literature #53, Summer 1972
54."Limits of Taste and Tolerance."; Canadian Literature #54, Autumn 1972
55."Horizon of Survival."; Canadian Literature #55, Winter 1973
56."Periodical Precariousness."; Canadian Literature #56, Spring 1973
57."Publishing Present."; Canadian Literature #57, Summer 1973
58."New-Old Critics."; Canadian Literature #58, Autumn 1973
59."Trapping the Bird of Love."; Canadian Literature #59, Winter 1974
60."How a Land Grows Old."; Canadian Literature #60, Spring 1974
61."When Did it All Begin?."; Canadian Literature #61, Summer 1974
62."Premonitions of Mrs. Porter."; Canadian Literature #62, Autumn 1974
63."Changing Patrons."; Canadian Literature #63, Winter 1975
64."Tasting the Castalian Waters."; Canadian Literature #64, Spring 1975
65."Victories and Farewells."; Canadian Literature #65, Summer 1975
66."Valedictions."; Canadian Literature #66, Autumn 1975
67."Manners of Criticism."; Canadian Literature #67, Winter 1976
68."Maritime Cadences."; Canadian Literature #68-69, Spring/Summer 1976
69."Historians and Biographers."; Canadian Literature #70, Autumn 1976
70."Pride of Place and Past."; Canadian Literature #71, Winter 1976
71."Playing Favorites."; Canadian Literature #72, Spring 1977
72."Massey's Harvest."; Canadian Literature #73, Summer 1977
73."Balancing the Yin and the Yang."; Canadian Literature #133, Summer 1992
Canadian Literature wishes to establish no clan, little or large. It will not adopt a narrowly academic approach, nor will it try to restrict its pages to any school of criticism or any class of writers. It is published by a university, but many of its present and future contributors live and work outside academic circles, and long may they continue to do so, for the independent men and women of letters are the solid core of any mature literature. Good writing, writing that says something fresh and valuable on literature in Canada is what we seek, no matter where it originates. It can be in English or in French, and it need not necessarily be by Canadians, since we intend to publish the views of writers from south of the border or east of the Atlantic, who can observe what is being produced here from an external and detached viewpoint.
-George Woodcock, "First Issue of Canadian Literature"; (1959).
George Woodcock: Collected editorials from Canadian Literature is available in the EPUB format (list of supported devices), and will soon be available for the Amazon Kindle.
Table of Contents
1."In Praise of an Omnivorous Intelligence"; by Alan Twigg
2."Alive to Unfashionable Possibilities: Reading Woodcock's Collected Editorials"; by Glenn Deer
3."First Issue of Canadian Literature."; Canadian Literature #1, Summer 1959
4."Aeropagitica re-written."; Canadian Literature #2, Autumn 1959
5."A Time of Projects."; Canadian Literature #3, Winter 1960
6."On the Cultivation of Laurels."; Canadian Literature #4, Spring 1960
7."Summer Thought."; Canadian Literature #5, Summer 1960
8."Honours and Awards."; Canadian Literature #6, Autumn 1960
9."A Record Writ in Air."; Canadian Literature #7, Winter 1961
10."Under Seymour Mountain."; Canadian Literature #8, Spring 1961
11."Shoots from an Old Tree."; Canadian Literature #9, Summer 1961
12."The Muse of Politics."; Canadian Literature #10, Autumn 1961
13."Remote Reflections."; Canadian Literature #11, Winter 1962
14."Reflections in the Chartroom."; Canadian Literature #12, Spring 1962
15."Celebrations of Harvest."; Canadian Literature #13, Summer 1962
16."Cautious Inevitability."; Canadian Literature #14, Autumn 1962
17."Smith's Hundred."; Canadian Literature #15, Winter 1963
18."Salt and Savour."; Canadian Literature #16, Spring 1963
19."A Spectre is Haunting Canada."; Canadian Literature #17, Summer 1963
20."A Commonwealth of Literatures."; Canadian Literature #18, Autumn 1963
21."Titanic, but Not Olympian."; Canadian Literature #19, Winter 1964
22."Problems of Equilibrium."; Canadian Literature #20, Spring 1964
23."On the Divide."; Canadian Literature #21, Summer 1964
24."Uncommercial Voices."; Canadian Literature #22, Autumn 1964
25."Surveyors and Natural Historians."; Canadian Literature #23, Winter 1965
26."Canadian Biography."; Canadian Literature #24, Spring 1965
27."Trans-Pacific Greetings: Meanjin's 100th Issue."; Canadian Literature #25, Summer 1965
28."Biographical First Fruits."; Canadian Literature #28, Spring 1966
29."Paperbacks and Respectable Pickpockets."; Canadian Literature #29, Summer 1966
30."George Kuthan."; Canadian Literature #30, Autumn 1966
31."Canadian Literature and the Centennial."; Canadian Literature #31, Winter 1967
32."To Other Editors."; Canadian Literature #32, Spring 1967
33."Preface to a Symposium."; Canadian Literature #33, Summer 1967
34."Expanding Vistas."; Canadian Literature #34, Autumn 1967
35."About Biographies."; Canadian Literature #36, Spring 1968
36."Awards and Initiatives."; Canadian Literature #37, Summer 1968
37."World in Microcosm."; Canadian Literature #38, Autumn 1968
38."Momaco Revisited."; Canadian Literature #35, Winter 1968
39."Centrifugal Publishing."; Canadian Literature #39, Winter 1969
40."Sparrows and Eagles."; Canadian Literature #40, Spring 1969
41."Getting away with Survival."; Canadian Literature #41, Summer 1969
42."An Absence of Utopias."; Canadian Literature #42, Autumn 1969
43."Arts in the Politician's Eye."; Canadian Literature #43, Winter 1970
44."The Absorption of Echoes."; Canadian Literature #44, Spring 1970
45."Permutations of Politics."; Canadian Literature #45, Summer 1970
46."The Frontiers of Literature."; Canadian Literature #46, Autumn 1970
47."New Directions in Publishing."; Canadian Literature #47, Winter 1971
48."New Trends in Publishing (2)."; Canadian Literature #48, Spring 1971
49."Criticism and Other Arts."; Canadian Literature #49, Summer 1971
50."Swarming of Poets."; Canadian Literature #50, Autumn 1971
51."The Craft of History."; Canadian Literature #51, Winter 1972
52."Give The Corporation a Compass!."; Canadian Literature #52, Spring 1972
53."Or Every Bellows Burst..."; Canadian Literature #53, Summer 1972
54."Limits of Taste and Tolerance."; Canadian Literature #54, Autumn 1972
55."Horizon of Survival."; Canadian Literature #55, Winter 1973
56."Periodical Precariousness."; Canadian Literature #56, Spring 1973
57."Publishing Present."; Canadian Literature #57, Summer 1973
58."New-Old Critics."; Canadian Literature #58, Autumn 1973
59."Trapping the Bird of Love."; Canadian Literature #59, Winter 1974
60."How a Land Grows Old."; Canadian Literature #60, Spring 1974
61."When Did it All Begin?."; Canadian Literature #61, Summer 1974
62."Premonitions of Mrs. Porter."; Canadian Literature #62, Autumn 1974
63."Changing Patrons."; Canadian Literature #63, Winter 1975
64."Tasting the Castalian Waters."; Canadian Literature #64, Spring 1975
65."Victories and Farewells."; Canadian Literature #65, Summer 1975
66."Valedictions."; Canadian Literature #66, Autumn 1975
67."Manners of Criticism."; Canadian Literature #67, Winter 1976
68."Maritime Cadences."; Canadian Literature #68-69, Spring/Summer 1976
69."Historians and Biographers."; Canadian Literature #70, Autumn 1976
70."Pride of Place and Past."; Canadian Literature #71, Winter 1976
71."Playing Favorites."; Canadian Literature #72, Spring 1977
72."Massey's Harvest."; Canadian Literature #73, Summer 1977
73."Balancing the Yin and the Yang."; Canadian Literature #133, Summer 1992
Canadian Literature wishes to establish no clan, little or large. It will not adopt a narrowly academic approach, nor will it try to restrict its pages to any school of criticism or any class of writers. It is published by a university, but many of its present and future contributors live and work outside academic circles, and long may they continue to do so, for the independent men and women of letters are the solid core of any mature literature. Good writing, writing that says something fresh and valuable on literature in Canada is what we seek, no matter where it originates. It can be in English or in French, and it need not necessarily be by Canadians, since we intend to publish the views of writers from south of the border or east of the Atlantic, who can observe what is being produced here from an external and detached viewpoint.
-George Woodcock, "First Issue of Canadian Literature"; (1959).
Submitted on March 13, 2013 in By David.
