![]() The criterion that the information be important in itself meant that the book had to include all the significant landmarks. Allow me to discuss these two criteria in turn. I decided that if I included a piece of information it had to be either important or interesting. During the time I worked on this book I evolved two criteria for inclusion. The work did not start from scratch but was built on a quarter century of involvement in the world of letters. It took close to two years to assemble the literary and geographical information in this book. The entries are necessarily brief, but it is hoped that each entry will delight and inform. The sites embrace places of birth, principal residences, points of inspiration, locales transformed by imaginative acts, and final resting places. The places for which there are entries include all major cities and a great many towns, villages, and settlements important lakes and rivers major regions even imaginative locales. Coverage is given to visiting foreign authors who had occasion to comment on Canadian locales. Not all the information is strictly literary, for there are some architectural and historical details included, along with biographical information about all the members of the Group of Seven and some other literary-minded artists. Although the book concentrates on poets, storytellers, novelists, and dramatists, it does not neglect journalists, editors, historians, and others concerned with the world of books. Most of the major literary writers of the past are represented, along with a selection of noteworthy contemporary writers. It maps the Canadian literary imagination, and as such should enrich the reading experience of every literate Canadian. The book is comprehensive and provides the reader with a geographical perspective on the country’s literature and writers. Each place or site is briefly located and concisely described to root it in a region and to relate it to a literary work or a period in the life of an imaginative writer. The entries are arranged alphabetically within province or territory. ![]() There are over 1,200 references to more than 750 places associated with some 500 authors. It describes the literary sites, or landmarks, that are related to the lives or works of important or interesting writers of the past and present. Canadian Literary Landmarks is an illustrated guide to places in the country with literary associations.
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