Macpherson, Jay.

The Boatman and Other Poems.

First Edition. Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1968. Octavo. IX, 86 pages. Original Softcover, illustrated with an ornament derived from a design by Jean de Beaugrand for the arms of the Dauphin (1604). Some signs of foxing to the edges. Otherwise in very good condition.

Jean Jay Macpherson (June 13, 1931 – March 21, 2012) was a Canadian lyric poet and scholar. The Encyclopædia Britannica calls her “a member of ‘the mythopoeic school of poetry,’ who expressed serious religious and philosophical themes in symbolic verse that was often lyrical or comic.” Macpherson has been described “as a ‘mythopoeic’ poet – rooted in the teachings of Frye, the archetypes of Carl Jung, and the intensely conservative social vision of T.S. Eliot.”] Within her work, “recurring themes involve the creation, fall, flood, redemption and the apocalypse.” Her interest is in “authentic myth”, “the ones that have some imaginative force behind them.” (Wikipedia).

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• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 43375AB