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Article: The Picturesque and the Sublime: A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape.(Book review)
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Susan Glickman. The Picturesque and the Sublime. "A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's UP, 1998. Pp. xi, 212. $50.00.
"I came to the study of Canadian poetry late," volunteers Susan Glickman in her preface to The Picturesque and the Sublime. "A poet myself," she explains, "I wanted to know more about my antecedents, and perhaps because I never studied 'Canlit' formally, my reading remained a private pleasure--without obligation, and without preconceptions. It was random and idiosyncratic ..." (vii). Suggesting later that she is "not interested in constructing a master narrative," Glickman describes her book as
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