The Boatman

Macpherson, Jay. The Boatman and Other Poems. First Edition. Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1968. Octavo. IX, 86 pages. Original Softcover, illustrated with an ornament derived from a design by Jean de Beaugrand for the arms of the Dauphin (1604). Some signs of foxing to the edges. Otherwise in very good condition. Jean Jay Macpherson (June 13, 1931 – March 21, 2012) was a Canadian lyric poet and scholar. The Encyclopædia Britannica calls her a member of 'the mythopoeic school of poetry,' who expressed serious religious and philosophical themes in symbolic verse that was often lyrical or comic. Macpherson has been described as a 'mythopoeic' poet – rooted in the teachings of Frye, the archetypes of Carl Jung, and the intensely conservative social vision of T.S. Eliot.] Within her work, recurring themes involve the creation, fall, flood, redemption and the apocalypse. Her interest is in authentic myth, the ones that have some imaginative force behind them. (Wikipedia).