Old Enchanter : A Portrait of George Johnston

Publisher: Penumbra Press
Product Code: YB01969
ISBN: 0921254857
Condition: Collectible Like New

Price: $49.99

Signed by the author on the half title page. Book in excellent condition.

Plain Luck!' is how the poet George Johnston accounted for his appointment to the young Carleton University, soon after his discharge from the R.C.A.F. and service in the Second World War. It was more than luck that kept them together. He was, as he said, a working academic, 'not ornamental.' For twenty-nine years, while he was creating some of the truest and brightest poems of our literature, he was a leading scholar of Old Norse and a charismatic teacher and colleague. 'He brought such a sense of fresh delight, such spontaneity to Chaucer,' writes Robert MacNeil in Wordstruck, 'that I caught it like a virus.' To those who fell under his spell, he imparted a compelling ideal of clean, unaffected scholarship and a persistent passion for the English language, for what it owes to the speech of ordinary people, and for the literature that is crafted out of it. The Old Enchanter is a celebration of George Johnston's eighty-fifth birthday by students, colleagues, and friends.
Binding
Paperback  
Edition
1999
Condition
Collectible Like New
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Signed
Language
English