In Divers Tones

A young nation is summoned to wake beneath a rising sun; then an old woman watches a hunter stride into a sunlit valley, his fifty hounds clamouring at his heels.

In In Divers Tones, Canadian poet Sir Charles G. D. Roberts moves from the hopes and hard-won history of Canada to the green valleys of ancient Greece, where a woman of Plataea reflects on the gods and human grief. The poems speak in many registers: a Dominion Day prayer urges a divided people toward unity, while a witness to a mythic moment recalls the beauty and peril of the hills. National memory, vivid landscapes, and intimate sorrow meet in verse that can be ceremonial one moment and startlingly personal the next. What other voices emerge as the collection changes its tone?

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