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Critical Essay by Kenneth J. Hughes and Birk Sproxton

4,285 words, approx. 15 pages

In the following essay, Hughes and Sproxton argue that “Malcolm's Katie” consists of several intertwined love stories. Isabella Valancy Crawford's “Malcolm's ... Read more

Critical Essay by Germaine Warkentin

5,361 words, approx. 18 pages

In the following essay, Warkentin examines stylistic contradictions in Crawford's poetry. Isabella Valancy Crawford is from one point of view a figure easily stereotyped. Though he wisely rejec... Read more

Critical Essay by Mary Joy MacDonald

7,908 words, approx. 27 pages

In the following essay, MacDonald reveals issues of power and gender in “Malcolm's Katie.” Critics of Isabella Valancy Crawford's “Malcolm's Katie: A Love Sto... Read more

Critical Essay by Robert Alan Burns

8,313 words, approx. 28 pages

In the following essay, Burns discusses the impact that Crawford's gender had on her writing, her reaction to events and social norms of the day, and analyzes related poems. After a lifetime of... Read more

Critical Essay by Robert Alan Burns

6,114 words, approx. 21 pages

In the following essay, Burns looks at Crawford's writings in terms of intertextuality and her use of parody of other (primarily male) writers, focusing on Hugh and Ion and “Malcolm�... Read more

Critical Essay by Robin Mathews

5,959 words, approx. 20 pages

In the following essay, Mathews studies the various themes that comprise “Malcolm's Katie.” Isabella Valancy Crawford's major poem “Malcolm's Katie,” a... Read more

Critical Essay by Catherine Sheldrick Ross

4,909 words, approx. 17 pages

In the following essay, Ross analyzes “Gisli the Chieftain,” arguing that the poem best embodies Crawford's use of the “solar myth” and outlining the poem's m... Read more

Critical Essay by James F. Johnson

2,734 words, approx. 10 pages

In the following essay, Johnson compares the early “Malcolm's Katie” with the unfinished Hugh and Ion. The poetry of Isabella Valancy Crawford has not gone completely unadmired si... Read more

Critical Essay by John Ower

2,022 words, approx. 7 pages

In the following essay, Ower argues that “The Lily Bed” is an ironic reaction to the essay “The Fleshly School of Poetry: Mr. D. G. Rossetti” by Robert Buchanan. The sexual... Read more

Critical Essay by John Ower

6,630 words, approx. 23 pages

In the following essay, originally presented at the fifth Symposium of the University of Ottawa Symposia series in 1978, Ower analyzes Crawford's use of the “piercing weapon” as a... Read more

Critical Essay by Fred Cogswell

3,117 words, approx. 11 pages

In the following essay, originally presented at the fifth Symposium of the University of Ottawa Symposia series in 1978, Cogswell offers an analysis of “Said the Canoe,” which he argues ... Read more

Critical Essay by Barbara Godard

9,674 words, approx. 33 pages

In the following essay, Godard examines the structure and style of Crawford's fairy tales. Today, we sometimes forget that fairy tales were not always the exclusive domain of childhood. Their r... Read more

Critical Essay by Catherine Sheldrick Ross

5,314 words, approx. 18 pages

In the following essay, Ross analyzes Crawford's fiction, primarily stories written for magazines and incomplete works. Crawford's literary reputation will be based, as she expected it w... Read more