In Flanders Fields and Other Poems (eBook)

Michael Gnarowski co-edited The Making of Modern Poetry in Canada, compiled The Concise Bibliography of English Canadian Literature, and edited the Critical Views of Canadian Writers Series for McGraw-Hill Ryerson and was for a number of year the founding Director of Carleton University Press. Gnarowski is professor emeritus at Carleton University in Ottawa. Presently he is Series Editor for the reissue of the novels of Hugh MacLennan for McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Sir Andrew Macphail was a noted Canadian physician and the founding editor of the Canadian Medical Association Journal. He published more than ten books, and the book for which he is best remembered is The Master's Wife.

John McCrae was a medical doctor and poet. He served with the army in the Second Boer War and later in Europe During the First World War. The suffering and death he witnessed in the war became the subject of many of his poems. McCrae died in 1918 and was buried with full military honours.

Introduction 
Related Reading 
A Note on the Text
In Flanders Fields and Other Poems
Note of Acknowledgement 
In Flanders Fields 


The Anxious Dead



The Warrior 



Isandlwana 



The Unconquered Dead 



The Captain 



The Song of the Derelict 



Quebec 



Then and Now 



Unsolved 



The Hope of My Heart 



Penance 



Slumber Songs 



The Oldest Drama 



Recompense 



Mine Host 



Equality 



Anarchy 



Disarmament 



The Dead Master 



The Harvest of the Sea 



The Dying of Pere Pierre 



Eventide 



Upon Watts' Picture "Sic Transit" 



A Song of Comfort 



The Pilgrims 



The Shadow of the Cross 



The Night Cometh 



In Due Season 



John McCrae: An Essay in Character by Sir Andrew Macphail
Notes