Reading and Resituating Charles Sangster’s The St. Lawrence and the Saguenay as a Canadian Pilgrimage Poem

• Authors: Ganz Shoshannah

Abstracts

Developing on 150 years of reviews and scholarship of Charles Sangster’s The St. Law- rence and the Saguenay, this paper contends that Sangster’s poem is not merely derivative of British and American Romantic poetry, or a vague tourist poem, but that Sangster employs the language and images of Christian pilgrimage to purposefully detail the pilgrimage of his soul.

Keywords

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Canadian poetry; Charles Sangster,; The St. Lawrence and the Saguenay; Romanticism; Christian pilgrimage

• Publisher: Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw
• Journal: Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 27/1
• Pages: 35-49

Contributors

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Ganz Shoshannah

• Memorial University of Newfoundland

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