P. K. Page Summary

P. K. Page, in a career that has lasted for almost half a century, has shown herself a Protean writer, continually overstepping the boundaries of genre and category. She has written a romantic novel, ... Read more

In the excerpt below, American educator and Pulitzer Prize—winning poet Meredith favorably reviews As Ten, as Twenty, finding the volume a strong example of modern poetry. Just where the new la... Read more

Smith was a Canadian educator, anthologist, award-winning poet, and critic. In the following essay, originally published in Canadian Literature in 1971, he examines the imagery and themes in Page�... Read more

Below, Mandel reviews Evening Dance of the Grey Flies. She comments that the "accomplishment of this fine book, much waited for, is that it makes such elegantly crafted artifacts beautiful to a... Read more

In this review of The Glass Air: Selected Poems, Hutchison praises the book as a "valuable asset to both neophyte and scholar" and calls Page "one of our finest and most accomplis... Read more

Critical Essay by John Sutherland [Sun and Moon] bears a direct relation to Miss Page's writing in verse form, and is at once a counterpart and explanation of her poetry before she felt the inf... Read more

Critical Essay by Rosemary Sullivan A poet's identity may be found in the habits of feeling and insight that are particularly, almost obsessively, her own and which distinguish her poetry from ... Read more