![]() The raucous profiteers he meets in Calgary are involved in what Brooke calls "the tragedy of the West … a gigantic national gambling of a most unprofitable and disastrous kind. ![]() The young English poet, Rupert Brooke admires the old pioneers who settled the West, but he has harsh words for the influx of American real estate speculators. ![]() This 1913 travelogue shows Calgary in the fever of one of its early economic booms. Hordes of people… prey on the community by their dealings in what is humorously called 'Real Estate'… What a sowing, and what a harvest! Letters from America by Rupert Brooke (Charles Scribner, 1916) Here are a few authors from around the world, who have captured our complexity. When we read Calgary's literature, we become aware of our city's deeper identity. In the 1980s, writers, from here and away, were mapping the city's urban geography and experience. By the early 20th century, Calgary started to appear in fiction and poetry about prairie settlements. Globe-trotting writers described our frontier town in its first few decades. 11 2011 by Arthur Stringer (Author) 3 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 0.00 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 47.32 1 New from 47.32 Paperback This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. They were wrong.Īuthors have been writing Calgary since the North-West Mounted Police set the city in motion in 1875. Some even suggested this was the city's fault – that Calgary was somehow unworthy of literature. There was a time when Calgary was considered a "lesser" city because it was thought that novelists and poets hadn't evoked it on the page. ![]() It's been said a place doesn't exist until it has been written about in literature. ![]()
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