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Island Minstrel (1867)

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Island Minstrel (1867)

CA$150.00

Title: The Island Minstrel: A Collection of Some of the Poetical Writings of John Le Page, Volume II
Author: John Le Page
Publisher: Self published, Charlottetown, P.E.I.: 1867
Printer: William H. Bremner, Charlottetown, P.E.I.
Description: Small 8vo. 219pp. Hardcover. Bound in blue cloth with embossed gilt decoration on front panel, gilt titles on spine, and embossed decoration on back panel. Signed with inscription and dated (May 17, 1871) in ink by author on front free endpaper. Ex-library with library markings and library card pocket including card fixed to back endpaper. Also, Notre Dame Academy, Charlottetown, embossed stamp on half-title page. Cover shows edge wear and soiling from handling. Cloth beginning to fray along the spine. Content pages lightly age toned. Overall, fair condition.

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John Le Page (1812-1886) is best known as a 19th-century poet in Prince Edward Island. His poems dealt mostly with P.E.I. current and historical events. Some of the works would fall into the category of narrative poetry, along with elements of political or social commentary. "He (John Le Page) was very much a public poet in that his verse generally dealt more with subjects drawn from the world he and his readers knew from personal experience than with the exploring and articulating of his personal feelings and values. He wrote verses for special occasions, odes, eulogies to military heroes, and elegies on local notables, but his most interesting poetry lies in his comic-satiric treatment of certain social and political aspects of Island life. In these poems, he often employed doggerel rhythms and verse patterns to help deflate the inherent pretentiousness and pomposity of public figures and events. The most striking poem of this sort is his pamphlet (Flies in amber): an authentic history of the land commission and other stirring events in Prince Edward Island (1862) which deals with the ineffectual efforts of the royal commission of 1860–61 established by the government of Edward Palmer to solve the land tenure problem in Prince Edward Island.” - Thomas B. Vincent

Source: http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/lepage_john_11E.html