The Bush Garden

Although Frye asserted that his picture of Canadian self-image was unique to Canada, the picture of a civilization, led by patrilineal founders and establishing itself within a hostile or potentially hostile landscape, is in fact a recurring theme of the foundation myths told by a wide variety of cultures about themselves. == Contents ==

• Author's Preface • From "Letters in Canada" (University of Toronto Quarterly) :(originally published in the University of Toronto Quarterly 1950–1959) • Canada and Its Poetry :(originally published in The Book of Canadian Poetry, A. J. M. Smith, editor. 1943) • The Narrative Tradition in English-Canadian Poetry :(originally published in 1946) • Turning New Leaves :(originally published in Folk Songs of Canada, Edith Fulton Fowke and Richard Johnston, editors, 1954) • Preface to an Uncollected Anthology :(originally published in 1956) • Silence in the Sea :(originally published in 1968) • Canadian and Colonial Painting :(originally published in 1940) • David Milne: An Appreciation :(originally published in 1948) • Lawren Harris: An Introduction :(originally published in Lawren Harris, Bess Harris and R. G. P. Colgrove, editors, 1969) • Conclusion to a Literary History of Canada :(originally published in Literary History of Canada, Carl F. Klinck general editor, 1965) == References ==