The Collected Poems of Miriam Waddington : A Critical Edition

Miriam Waddington

Description

Miriam Waddington's verse is deceptively accessible: it is personal but never private, emotional but not confessional, thoughtful but never cerebral. The subtlety of her craft is the hallmark of a modernist poet whose work opens to the world and its readers. She details intoxicating romance and mature love, the pleasures of marriage and motherhood, the experience of raising two sons to adulthood, and the ineffable pain of divorce. As she moved through life, she wrote clearly and uncompromisingly about the vast sweep of Canada, her travels to new lands, the passage of time, the death of her ex-husband, the loss of close friends and, later, of growing old.

Sujets

• Poetry
• Canadian

Informations

• Publié par: University of Ottawa Press
• Date de parution: 08 mai 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9780776621548
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

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The Collected Poems of Miriam Waddington

source: canadian jewish congress charities committee national archives

The Collected Poems of Miriam Waddington

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a critical edition

volume 1

Edited by ruth panofsky

University of Ottawa Press| OTTAWA

The University of Ottawa Press acknowledges with gratitude the support extended to its publishing list by Heritage Canada through the Canada Book Fund, by the Canada Council for the Arts, by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences through the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program and by the University of Ottawa. The University of Ottawa Press also acknowledges with gratitude financial and editorial support from Editing Modernism in Canada.

Copy editing: Trish O’ReillyBrennan Proofreading: Johanne Muzak Typesetting: infographie CS Cover design: Johanna Pedersen Cover art: Open Window, 1951, by Ghitta Caiserman © National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Waddington, Miriam, 1917 [Poems] The collected poems of Miriam Waddington / edited by Ruth Panofsky.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Issued in print and electronic formats. ISBN 9780776621548 (pdf )

I. Panofsky, Ruth, editor II. Title.

PS8545.A18A17 2014

C811’.54

C20149028865 C20149028873

Reproduced with permission from Jonathan and Marcus Waddington from the Estate of Miriam Waddington

© University of Ottawa Press, 2014 Printed in Canada

For Seymour Mayne

friend to Miriam Waddington and my true ally

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Contents

acknowledgementsix introductionxi Chronology of Waddington’s Awards and Publications xxxviii Works Cited xxxix Editorial Principles xliii . the collected poems of miriam waddington1 Previously Published Poems1 Previously Unpublished and Uncollected Poems—Selected825 Translations—Selected891 Yiddish892 German939 Russian941 . abbreviations947 textual notes949 explanatory notes985 appendix: contents of published collections1057 index of poem titles1093 index of translation titles1111

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Acknowledgements

he preparation of a critical edition is always a large, collaborative under rece T ived in support of this editorial project. I have benefited greatly from the taking and this edition of Miriam Waddington’s verse is no exception. I welcome the opportunity to acknowledge the invaluable aid I have community of scholars associated with Editing Modernism in Canada ( EM i C ), a Strategic Research Network Project funded under the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s ( SSHRC ) Strategic Knowledge Cluster. Since April 2008 under the direction of Principal Investigator Dean Irvine, pro fessor of English at Dalhousie University, EM i C  has brought together textual scholars from across Canada, as well as England, France, and the United States. EM i C ’s mandate is directed primarily toward the production of critical editions of texts by modernist Canadian authors. My work on this edition of Miriam Waddington’s collected poetry has been carried out under the aegis of EM i C , and I am grateful to Dean Irvine for inviting my communal participation in this nec essary and laudable project. Support for this edition has come from EM i C , in the form of two research assis tant positions, as well as from my home institution, Ryerson University. Ryerson expedited my work on this edition with a SSHRC Institutional Grant and by provid ing me with research assistants who, over a number of years, have interned as editorial assistants. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to these fund ing bodies for facilitating student training and the production of this edition of Miriam Waddington’s poetry. Marcus Waddington and Jonathan Waddington, Miriam Waddington’s literary executors, graciously granted me permission to consult the Miriam Waddington fonds, housed at Library and Archives Canada ( LAC ), while literary archivist Catherine J. Hobbs gave me access to the extensive Waddington materi als I consulted over the course of my research at LAC . I also relied heavily on the tireless efforts of Ryerson University Library’s interlibrary loan staff to procure copies of many of Waddington’s more elusive poems. For research assistance I owe special thanks to a team of energetic and dedi cated students who helped me at every stage of this project: Marlee Kostiner gath ered photocopies of the previously published poems that form the core of this