Contents -- Note on the Text -- Introduction -- Classical Canadian Poetry and the Public Muse -- The Journey of Discovery: Nineteenth-Century Narrative Poets -- High Colonialism in Canada -- Charles Sangster: The End of an Era -- Poet and Politics: Charles Mair at Red River -- Isabella Valancy Crawford: " The Canoe" -- A Choice of Worlds: God, Man and Nature in Charles G. D. Roberts -- Lampman and Religion -- Lampman's Fleeting Vision -- A Gift of Love: Lampman and Life -- Piper of Many Tunes: Duncan Campbell Scott -- The Wound under the Feathers: Scott's Discontinuities -- Carman and Tradition -- Transcendentalist, Mystic, Evolutionary Idealist: Bliss Carman, 1886-1894 -- The Klondike Muse -- Notes on Contributors.