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ALLAN, Peter John. CHRISTMAS, Henry, ed. Poetical Remains of Peter John Allan, Esq., Late of Fredericton, New Brunswick. With a Short Biographical Notice
Smith, Elder, & Co, London, 1853,
ALLAN, Peter John. The Poetical Remains of Peter John Allan, Esq., Late of Fredericton, New Brunswick. With a Short Biographical Notice. Edited by theRev. Henry Christmas. London : Smith, Elder, & Co., MDCCCLIII [1853]. Pp [ i]-xxiv,[1]-171,(1). 8vo, maroon pressed cloth, gilt lettering to spine. TPL 5364. "Peter John Allan (June 6, 1825 – October 21, 1848) was a Canadian poet. Peter John Allan was born in York, England, the third son of Dr. Colin Allan and Jane Gibbon. Peter John Allan's father was Chief Medical Officer at Halifax before moving to Fredericton in 1836 upon his retirement. Growing up in Fredericton, Peter John briefly attended King's College but left before completing his degree. He then turned to the study of law. About thesame time, he began to publish his compositions in the New Brunswick Repor ter and Fredericton Advertiser, a local newspaper published by James Hogg. Allan began to plan the publication of a volume of poetry. He solicited enough subscriptions to underwrite the cost of publication and had completed the manuscript when he died suddenly in 1848 at Fredericton, following a brief illness. His poems were posthumously published in London in the summer of 1853 by his brother, and entitled The Poetical Remains of Peter John Allan. Influenced by the aesthetic concepts of the Romantic poets and especially by the style and versification of Lord Byron, Allan was able in his most effective poetry to break away from the moralistic attitudes and sentimental tone that had prevailed in locally written verse since the end of the 18th century. Allan was excited by the potential of man's imagination, by the range of experience that imagination offered to human consciousness, and bythe relationship between the natural world and ideal reality, which only t he imagination opened to human awareness. In his best poems, Allan used this intense sensitivity to ideal reality to control the rush of emotion he felt when confronted with the sensual beauty of nature. This control gave an intellectual toughness to his verse that was missing in the verses of contemporary Maritime poets such as Joseph Howe and Mary Jane Katzmann, who approached nature poetry by way of sentimentalism. The new note struck by Allan's verse was probably noticed by few. It had an immediate if muted effect on James Hogg's poetry, but it was not until the early verses of Charles G.D. Roberts and Bliss Carman that once again intellectual perception and emotional sensitivity were to be found in so subtle a balance in the poetry of Maritime Canada." - from wikipedia. Spine chipped, edges and corners worn, hinges cracked, cloth waterstained and soiled, some foxing and soiling to some leaves, gift inscription dated 1858, else a good copy only. As is. 300.00
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WHITE, Howard, ed ROBSON, Peter A., ed. HENRY, Tom. DINSLEY, Ken. Raincoast Chronicles 18
Harbour Publishing, 1998,
WHITE, Howard, ed. Raincoast Chronicles 18 : Stories and History of the British Columbia Coast. With Peter A. Robson. (Madeira Park, BC): Harbour Publishing, (1998). Pp 80. 4to, ill. card covers. A recent number of this British Columbian coastal miscellany. Contents include: "Pisces Ascending: The Little Sub that Could" by Tom Henry and Ken Dinsley; "Svendson and the Tax Man" by Dick Hammond; "Who Shot Estevan Light? A Traditionalist Returns Fire" by Douglas Hamilton; "Light at the End of the World: Cape St. James, 1941" by Hallvard Dahlie; "Claus Carl Daniel Botel, West Coast Patriarch" by Ruth Botel; "Booting the Big Ones Home: Log Barging on the BC Coast, 1922-1998" by David R. Conn; "His World Turned Upside-Down" by Duane Noyes; "They Don't Make 'En Any More Department: Fisherman Hank McBride" by Michael Skog; "Under Fire and Under Pressure: West Coast Shipbuilders in World War II" by Vickie Jensen and Arthur McLaren. Vg. 15.00
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HENRY, Peter. Skating on Griffin's Pond : A paper which advances the notion that Griffin's Pond in the Halifax Public Gardens may once again be used as a skating rink.
Peter Henry Architects, Halifax, N.S., 1992,
HENRY, Peter. Skating on Griffin's Pond : A paper which advances the notionthat Griffin's Pond in the Halifax Public Gardens may once again be used a s a skating rink. Halifax : Peter Henry Architects, (1992). Pp (1),1-9 leaves, printed one side only. 4to, white comb-bound, white printed card coverswith clear plastic cover. Pencil notes at rear, else very good. 25.00
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HUCHEL, Peter. BEISSEL, Henry, Trans. Thistle In His Mouth. ill. card covers.
Cormorant Books, 1987, ISBN:0920953204
HUCHEL, Peter. A Thistle In His Mouth. Selected, translated and introduced by Henry Beissel. (Dunvegan ON): Cormorant Books, (1987). Pp 116. 8vo, illustrated card covers. A collection of poetry by one of Germany's foremost poets of this century. This is a first translation of his work. Covers lightly rubbed, ow vg. 15.00
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