{"id":1515,"date":"2019-05-21T19:06:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T14:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/info\/?page_id=1515"},"modified":"2021-11-29T11:37:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T16:37:02","slug":"french-canadian","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/collections\/harris\/french-canadian\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays \u2013 French Canadian Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a class=\"main\" href=\"#coll\">The Collection<\/a><\/li><li><a class=\"main\" href=\"#relcoll\">Related Collections <\/a><\/li><li><a class=\"main\" href=\"#relint\">Related Internet Resources <\/a><\/li><li><a class=\"main\" href=\"#essref\">Essential References<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a name=\"coll\"><\/a><br><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Collection<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The aim of the 19th century private collectors who began the Harris Collection was to acquire all American and Canadian poetry, plays, and music, and this is still the guiding principle of the collection today. It is the largest collection of Canadian poetry and drama outside Canada, and is much larger than collections in most Canadian research libraries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other Harris Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/collections\/harris\/index\/\">Back to the main page<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/collections\/harris\/history\/\">Harris Collection history<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/collections\/harris\/research\/\">Research Guide<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/collections\/harris\/internet-resources\/\">Internet Resources<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The collection includes a number of great rarities, of which the foremost is Marc Lescarbot&#8217;s <em>Les muses de la Nouvelle France<\/em>, a masque performed in Nova Scotia in 1606 and published in Paris in 1609. This is not only the earliest Canadian title, but the earliest title in the entire Harris Collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, there are extensive collections of major French-Canadian writers of the 19th and 20th centuries, including: Anne Hebert, Francois-Xavier Garneau, Louis Frechette, Emile Nelligan, Gaston Miron, Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Gratien Gelinas, Marcel Dube, Marie-Claire Blais, Michel Tremblay, Felix-Antoine Savard, Alain Grandbois, Roland Giguere, Gilles Vigneault, Nicole Brossard, among many others. The collection includes extensive holdings of vocal music and hymnals, anthologies, and literary periodicals. There are also considerable holdings of Canadian poetry broadsides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/info\/collections\/harris\/canadian\/\">Canadian Literature<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a name=\"relcoll\"><\/a>Related Collections<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brown.edu\/Facilities\/John_Carter_Brown_Library\/\">The John Carter Brown Library<\/a> at Brown University is an internationally renowned, constantly growing collection of primary historical sources pertaining to the Americas, both North and South, before ca. 1825. It includes an extensive collection of Canadiana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a name=\"relint\"><\/a>Related Internet Resources<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/dl.lib.brown.edu\/francophone\/\">Literature and culture of francophone Africa and the diaspora <\/a><br>A bilingual database which features selected Internet resources on primarily Francophone African and Diasporic cultural expression. Brown University Library.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lpg.ca\/\">Literary Press Group of Canada<\/a><\/li><li><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uwo.ca\/english\/canadianpoetry\/journpage.htm\">Canadian Poetry<\/a><br>literary journal<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/poetrysociety.org.uk\/directory\/canadian-poetry-association\/\">Canadian Poetry Association<\/a><\/li><li><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/www.library.utoronto.ca\/canpoetry\/index_poet.htm\">Canadian Poets<\/a><br>University of Toronto<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/rpo.library.utoronto.ca\/\">Representative Poetry Online<\/a><br>University of Toronto Libraries<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/books\/canadawrites\/a-guide-to-canadian-literary-magazines-and-journals-open-to-submissions-1.4242191\">Guide to Canadian Literary Magazines and Journals<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/writing.upenn.edu\/epc\/\">Electronic Poetry Center<\/a><br>University of Pennsylvania<\/li><li><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.ca\/\">League of Canadian Poets<\/a><\/li><li><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/www.library.utoronto.ca\/canpoetry\/\">University of Toronto Libraries: Canadian Poetry Online<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><a class=\"bodytextSmall\" href=\"#top\">\u00bb Top of the page<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a name=\"essref\"><\/a>Essential References<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Amtmann, Willy<br><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b1028621\">Music in Canada, 1600-1800.<\/a><br>Cambridge, Ont.: Habitex Books; distributed by Collier-Macmillan Canada, c1975.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b1041831\">The Annotated bibliography of Canada&#8217;s major authors \/ edited by Robert Lecker and Jack David<\/a><br>Downsview, Canada: ECW Press; Boston: distributed by G. K. Hall, 1979-1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ball, John Leslie<br><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b1062247\">A bibliography of Canadian theatre history, 1583-1975.<\/a> \/ John Ball, Richard Plant; general editor, Anton Wagner<br>Toronto: Playwrights Co-op, c1976.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ball, John Leslie<br><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b1040891\">The bibliography of Canadian theatre history : supplement, 1975-1976 <\/a><br>Toronto: Playwrights Co-op, 1979.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b1608613\">Canadian vocal music, available for perusal from the library of the Canadian Music Centre.<\/a><br>Toronto: Canadian Music Centre, 1967.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b1848343\">Canadian writers, 1890-1920 : edited by W.H. New<\/a><br>Detroit : Gale Research, c1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b1253499\"> Canadian writers, 1920-1959. First series \/ edited by W.H. New<\/a><br>Detroit: Gale Research Co., c1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b1749621\"> Canadian writers, 1920-1959. Second series \/ edited by W. H. New<\/a><br>Detroit : Gale Research, c1989<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b1917437\"> Canadian writers before 1890 \/ edited by W.H. New<\/a><br>Detroit: Gale Research, c1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b1227670\"> Canadian writers since 1960. Second series \/ edited by W.H. New<\/a><br>Detroit: Gale Research Co., c1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cass-Beggs, Barbara<br><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b1032913\">A reference list on Canadian folk music<\/a> \/ prepared for the Canadian Folk Music Society by Barbara Cass-Beggs and Edith Fowke<br>Revised and updated.<br>[Montreal?] : Canadian Folk Music Society, 1973.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coppens, Patrick<br><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b2020022\">Litterature quebecoise contemporaine \/ Patrick Coppens ; preface de Gaston Miron<\/a><br>Quebec: Gouvernement du Quebec, Ministere de l&#8217;education, Direction generale des moyens d&#8217;enseignement : Centrale des bibliotheques ; La Pocatiere, Quebec : Diffusion exclusive, Societe du stage en bibliotheconomie de La Pocatiere, 1982.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b1134840\">Directory of Canadian plays and playwrights<\/a> \/ editor, Jane Cunningham<br>10th anniversary edition<br>Toronto: Playwrights Canada, c1981.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doucette, Leonard E.<br><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b1323297\">Theatre in French Canada : laying the foundations, 1606-1867<\/a><br>Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, c1984.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b2365262\">ECW&#8217;s biographical guide to Canadian poets.<\/a><br>Toronto, Ont. : ECW Press, c1993<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b2081236\">Encyclopedia of music in Canada<\/a> \/ edited by Helmut Kallmann, Gilles Potvin, Kenneth Winters<br>2nd edition<br>Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, c1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fraser, Ian Forbes<br><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b1724324\">Bibliography of French-Canadian poetry.<\/a><br>New York: Columbia University, 1935.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Geddes, James<br><a href=\"https:\/\/search.library.brown.edu\/catalog\/b1724325\">Bibliographical outline of French-Canadian literature<\/a><br>Chicago: 1914.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jackson, Rick<br><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b2403270\">Encyclopedia of Canadian rock, pop &amp; folk music.<\/a><br>Kingston, Ont.: Quarry Press, c1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnston, Richard<br><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b1784453\">Folk songs of Canada;<\/a> Edith Fulton Fowke, literary editor, Richard Johnston, music editor. Illus. by Elizabeth Wilkes Hoey<br>Waterloo, Ont., Waterloo Music Co., 1955.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kallman, Helmut<br><a href=\"https:\/\/search.library.brown.edu\/catalog\/b1273586\">A history of music in Canada, 1534-1914<\/a><br>Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1960.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kandiuk, Mary<br><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b2020318\">French-Canadian authors : a bibliography of their works and of English-language criticism<\/a><br>Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laforte, Conrad<br><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b1724322\">Le Catalogue de la chanson folklorique francaise \/ par Conrad Laforte ; preface de Luc Lacourciere<\/a><br>Quebec: Presses universitaires Laval, 1958.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Legare, Yves<br><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b1933877\">Dictionnaire des ecrivains quebecois contemporains<\/a><br>Montreal: Diffusion, Hachette Canada, c1983.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Livesay, Dorothy, comp.<br><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b1851107\">40 women poets of Canada;<\/a> edited by Dorothy Livesay, with the assistance of Seymour Mayne<br>Montreal: Ingluvin Publications, 1971.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Morey, Carl<br><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b2579285\"> Music in Canada: a research and information guide.<\/a><br>New York: Garland Pub., 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b1295649\">Nos livres<\/a><br>Montreal, Office des communications sociales.<br>Brown has: v.8-19; 1977-1988;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b2703062\">The Oxford companion to Canadian literature \/ general editors, Eugene Benson &amp; William Toye<\/a><br>2nd edition Toronto; New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.<br>\u00bb See also <a href=\"https:\/\/search.library.brown.edu\/catalog\/b6257050\">Online Edition<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Platnick, Phyllis<br><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b1690156\">Canadian poetry: index to criticisms (1970-1979) = Po\u00f2sie canadienne : index.<\/a><br>Ottawa: Canadian Library Association, c1985.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b1742509\">Poetry by Canadian women<\/a> \/ edited by Rosemary Sullivan.<br>Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford University Press Canada, 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robert, Lucie<br><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b1760403\">L&#8217;institution du litteraire au Quebec<\/a><br>Quebec: Presses de l&#8217;Universite Laval, 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b2015590\">A check list of printed materials relating to French Canadian literature. Liste de reference d&#8217;imprimes relatifs \u00c3 la litterature canadienne-francaise. [By] Gerard Tougas<\/a><br>Vancouver: University of British Columbia Library, 1958.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a class=\"main\" href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b2853791s\">Who&#8217;s who in the League of Canadian Poets : directory of members 1999\/2000<\/a> [compiled by Edita Petrauskaite]<br>Toronto: League of Canadian Poets, c1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Collection Related Collections Related Internet Resources Essential References The Collection The aim of the 19th century private collectors who began the Harris Collection was to acquire all American and Canadian poetry, plays, and music, and this is still the guiding principle of the collection today. 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