From William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
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216pp. Frontispiece. Original muslin-backed paper boards. Some minor foxing, mostly in the first and final pages. A very good copy, in original condition, untrimmed. Kidd emigrated to Canada from Ireland at a young age, and after being rejected for the priesthood, he began publishing poetry. The epic main poem consumes over half the text, with nearly forty shorter poems comprising the rest. Kidd claims that he travelled extensively among the Indians of Upper Canada, and his poetry carries great sympathy for native peoples and their exploitation at the hands of European settlers. He writes that the "Huron Chief" was composed "on the inner rind of birch bark, during my travels through the immense forests of America, and under many difficulties and privations." He also claims that the poems would soon be published in native languages. SABIN 37700. TPL 1585. Seller Inventory # WRCAM34850
Bibliographic Details
Title: THE HURON CHIEF, AND OTHER POEMS
Publisher: Printed at the Office of the Herald and New Gazette, Montreal
Publication Date: 1830
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