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Thirty-seven years of research in the libraries of the world have unearthed an impressive array of analogues of Comus, Lycidas, Paradise Regained, and the more important of these are now made available in Kirkconnell's English translation in Awake the Courteous Echo.

This work examines the more than one hundred analogues of Samson Agonistes, about half of them written earlier than Milton's drama. The author has gone back in every instance to primary sources, and examined all treatments of Milton's theme, in all languages, for their intrinsic interest and merit.

An anthology of translated analogues, in whole or in part, on the theme of paradise lost. It is an indispensable resource for any serious student or scholar of Milton's Paradise Lost.

In his memoirs Dr. Kirkonnell has avoided a merely chronological arrangement of his autobiography but sought rather to take various phases of the Canadian tradition and to analyse his experience of each down through the years.

The poems in this collection are framed about the history of Canada, and are written in honour of the nation's Centennial in 1967. This volume also contains some lyrics from Dr. Kirkconnell's light opera, The Mod at Grand Pré, and the whole of his Greek-style drama, Let My People Go.

Pan Tadeusz or The Last Foray in Lithuania is the greatest epic poem of Poland's greatest poet, Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855). The original poem is in rhymed Alexandrine couplets, and the translation in the English heroic couplet; this is the first translation in rhymed English verse to be published.