Brian Trehearne: A Continuing Archive

Poems, readings, notebooks, meditations

Links to Trehearne scholarship

Open access items are indicated. They’re provided with a direct link to the document.  Any item that is not available by open access is provided with a McGill Libraries link. Visitors may have access online through a different institution.  I’d be grateful if you let me know of any failed links at bt@btrehearne.online.

Books

Editor, The Complete Poems of John Glassco (Canadian Poetry Press, 2018):

https://mcgill.on.worldcat.org/search/detail/1035328356?queryString=john%20glassco%20complete%20poems&expandSearch=off&translateSearch=off&bookReviews=off&newsArticles=off&clusterResults=true&groupVariantRecords=false.  Print only.

Editor, Canadian Poetry 1920-1960 (McClelland and Stewart, 2010).

https://mcgill.on.worldcat.org/search/detail/436336075?queryString=canadian%20poetry%201920%20to%201960&clusterResults=true&groupVariantRecords=false&newsArticles=off&bookReviews=off.  Print only.

Editor, The Complete Poems of A.J.M. Smith (Canadian Poetry Press, 2007):

https://mcgill.on.worldcat.org/search/detail/155848276?queryString=smith%2C%20a.j.m.%20complete%20poems&expandSearch=off&translateSearch=off&bookReviews=off&newsArticles=off&clusterResults=true&groupVariantRecords=false.  Print only.

The Montreal Forties: Modernist Poetry in Transition (University of Toronto Press, 1999):

https://mcgill.on.worldcat.org/search/detail/992891094?datasource=library_web&search_field=all_fields&search=true&database=all&scope=wz%3A12129&format=&clusterResults=on&func=find-b&q=&topLod=0&queryString=ti%3Amontreal%20forties&find=Go. E-book.

Aestheticism and the Canadian Modernists: Aspects of a Poetic Influence (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1989):

https://mcgill.on.worldcat.org/search/detail/951201157?queryString=ti%3Aaestheticism%20and%20the%20canadian&clusterResults=true&groupVariantRecords=false&newsArticles=off&bookReviews=off.  E-book.

Editor, The Emigrant; A Poem. In Four Cantos [1841], by Standish O’Gra­dy (Canadian Poetry Press, 1989):

https://canadianpoetry.org/library/early-writing-in-canada/early-canadian-long-poems/ogrady/.  E-book, open access.

Articles

“‘Memory White from Loss of Guilt’: Guilt and Detachment in the Early Cohen.”  In The Contemporary Leonard Cohen.  Eds. Joel Deshaye and Kaitlyn Pinder.  Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2023.

https://mcgill.on.worldcat.org/search/detail/1372584887?datasource=library_web&search_field=all_fields&search=true&database=all&scope=wz%3A12129&format=&clusterResults=on&func=find-b&q=&topLod=0&queryString=ti%3Acontemporary%20leonard%20cohen&find=Go

“Canadian Modernism at the Present Time.”  Modernist Cultures [Birmingham, UK] 13.4 (Winter 2018): 465-95.

https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/mod.2018.0226

“Re Making.” Review of Michael Gnarowski and Louis Dudek, eds., The Making of Modern Poetry in Canada: Essential Commentary on Poetry in English. Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews 83 (Fall/Winter 2018): 110-21.

http://canadianpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Reviews-1-83.pdf.  Open access.

“John Glassco’s Self-Construction.”  Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews 81 (Fall-Winter 2016): 12-38.

http://canadianpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Studies-1-79.pdf.  Open access.

“Layton as Ethical Subject: The Later Poetry and the Problem of Evil.”  Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews 73 (Fall-Winter 2013): 8-31.

http://canadianpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Studies-1-73.pdf.  Open access.

“Impersonality, Imitation, Influence: A.J.M. Smith and T.S. Eliot.”  The International Reception of T.S. Eliot.  Eds. Elisabeth Däumer and Shaymal Bagchee.  London: Continuum, 2007.  195-214.

https://mcgill.on.worldcat.org/search/detail/163289834?datasource=library_web&search_field=all_fields&search=true&database=all&scope=wz%3A12129&format=&clusterResults=on&func=find-b&q=&topLod=0&queryString=ti%3Ainternational%20reception%20of&find=Go.  Print only.

“A.J.M. Smith’s Eclectic Surrealism.”  The Canadian Modernists Meet: Modernism, Antimodernism, and Modernity. Ed. Dean Irvine.  Ottawa: Ottawa UP, 2005.  119-38.

https://mcgill.on.worldcat.org/search/detail/781535178?datasource=library_web&search_field=all_fields&search=true&database=all&scope=wz%3A12129&format=&clusterResults=on&func=find-b&q=&topLod=0&queryString=ti%3Acanadian%20modernists%20meet&find=Go

“Two Letters from A.J.M. Smith to W.E. Collin.”  Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews 54 (Spring / Summer 2004): 76-97.

http://canadianpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Documents-1-54.pdf.  Open access.

“P.K. Page and Surrealism.”  Proceedings of “Extraordinary Presence: The Worlds of P.K. Page,” Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, 25-27 October 2002.  Journal of Canadian Studies 38.1 (Winter 2004): 1-18. 

https://muse-jhu-edu.proxy3.library.mcgill.ca/pub/50/article/676404/pdf

            “Style and Mind in Lampman’s ‘Among the Timothy’.”  Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews 45 (Fall / Winter 1999): 66-78.

https://canadianpoetry.org/volumes/vol45/trehearne.html.  Open access.

            “Critical Episodes in Montreal Poetry of the 1940s.”  Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews 41 (Fall/Winter 1997): 21-52.

https://canadianpoetry.org/volumes/vol41/critical_episodes_in_montreal_poetry.html.  Open access.

            “Scanned and Scorned: Freedom and Fame in Layton.”  Inside the Poem: Essays in Honour of Donald Stephen.  Ed. W.H. New.  Toronto: Oxford UP, 1992.  139-50.  Rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism 164 (Gale, 2002).

https://mcgill.on.worldcat.org/search/detail/28221415?datasource=library_web&search_field=all_fields&search=true&database=all&scope=wz%3A12129&format=&clusterResults=on&func=find-b&q=&topLod=0&queryString=inside%20the%20poem%20donald%20stephen&find=Go

            “Introduction” to Fornalutx (Oven of Light): Selected Poems of Irving Layton 1928-1990.  Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s Univer­sity Press, 1992: xvi-xxxvii.

https://mcgill.on.worldcat.org/search/detail/29224590?datasource=library_web&search_field=all_fields&search=true&database=all&scope=wz%3A12129&format=&clusterResults=on&func=find-b&q=&topLod=0&queryString=fornalutx&find=Go

            “Preliminaries for a Life of Standish O’Grady.”  Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews 21 (Fall/Winter 1987): 81-92.

https://canadianpoetry.org/volumes/vol21/trehearne.html.  Open access.

            “Finch’s Early Poetry and the Dandy Manner.”  Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews 18 (Spring/Summer 1986): 11-34.

https://canadianpoetry.org/volumes/vol18/trehearne1.html#:~:text=Finch’s%20style%20has%20been%20characterized,early%20twentieth%20century%20Canadian%20literature.  Open access.

            “A Source For Pratt’s Truant?”  Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews 7 (Fall/Winter 1980): 73-79.

https://canadianpoetry.org/volumes/vol7/treahearne.html#:~:text=%22The%20Truant%22%20from%20all%20appearances,is%20circumstantial%20but%20highly%20convincing. Open access.