W. O. Mitchell Summary

Crocus, the small prairie town that W. O. Mitchell has created in his novels and stories, like Stephen Leacock's Mariposa, has been mapped in the Canadian imagination. The original of this mythic plac... Read more

Critical Essay by Richard Sullivan ["Who Has Seen the Wind"] is a piece of brilliantly sustained prose, a very beautiful, keen, perceptive rendering of human beings engaged in the ordin... Read more

Critical Essay by Mark Abley [W. O. Mitchell's] first and most famous book, Who Has Seen the Wind, told the story of a sensitive boy growing up in a small Saskatchewan town. Later novels, nota... Read more

Critical Essay by Walter Havighurst This ardent but unsure first novel [Who Has Seen the Wind] portrays a number of people in [a town on a Saskatchewan W(illiam) O(rmond) Mitchell 1914– Photog... Read more

Critical Essay by William H. New In his two novels, The Kite and Who Has Seen the Wind, W. O. Mitchell makes use of [the transition from childhood to maturity] as a means to consider man's awa... Read more

Critical Essay by Herbert Rosengarten The title of W. O. Mitchell's new novel alludes to the pictorial device by which converging lines, meeting at a "vanishing point" on the hor... Read more

Critical Essay by S. Gingell In studies of Canadian Prairie literature and in surveys of the development and outstanding achievements of Canadian fiction, W. O. Mitchell's novel Who Has Seen t... Read more