THE STORY OF AN AFFINITY by Lampman, Archibald (edited by D. M. R. Bentley) - 1986

London, Ontario: Canadian Poetry Press, 1986. (xxxl) 85 pp. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Archibald Lampman has been described as the Canadian Keats; and he is perhaps the most outstanding exponent of the Canadian school of nature poets. The Canadian Encyclopedia says that he is "generally considered the finest of Canada's late 19th-century poets in English." And he is classed as one of Canada's Confederation Poets, a group which also includes Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, and Duncan Campbell Scott. The Contents are: Introduction; The Present Text; Notes to the Introduction; The Story of an Affinity; Editorial Notes: Textual Notes: Authorial Revisions and Editorial Emendations; Explanatory Notes; and Appendix: Duncan Campbell Scott's Emendations.. First Edition. Soft cover. Very Good+. 8vo. Book.