LET US COMPARE MYTHOLOGIES
Title
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Let Us Compare Mythologies
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Year published
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1956
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Publisher
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McGill Poetry Series Number One, Contact Press, Toronto
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Pages
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80 pages, with six line-in drawings by Freda Guttman
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Notes
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Reprinted by McClelland And Stewart Ltd., Toronto, 1966
The poems were written between the ages of fifteen and twenty
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Summary
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Cohen's first book, published as the inaugural volume of the McGill
Poetry Series in an edition of about 400. (The first edition is now a
prized rare book, with copies selling for over $1,000.) The book consists
largely of poems Cohen wrote as a student at McGill. Though a young voice,
it is already remarkably assured, and many of Cohen's continuing obsessions
(love, power, religion, poetry) are already clearly evident.
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Summary written for The Leonard Cohen Files
by professor Stephen Scobie, copyright © 1997.
Cover pictures of the original 1956 edition (thanks to
Dick Straub) and the 1966 reprinting
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