Margaret Atwood, Morning in the Burned House

Sue Sorensen (Canadian Mennonite University)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.2: Canadian Writing and Culture (Anglophone): The Twentieth Century and beyond, 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

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First circulation or publication 1995

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Canada (Country of Origin)

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Throughout her career, Margaret Atwood’s wry and spare poetic voice has been unmistakable. Winning Canada’s Governor General’s Award for Poetry with her first major book in 1964 (

The Circle Game

), she quickly established herself as a major player on the Canadian literary scene. Her laconic free verse was both accessible in style and challenging in substance, taking on subjects such as Canadian identity, the de-romanticizing of heterosexual unions, and what Shannon Henneberger has called “the concept of dual track, separate modes of consciousness” (277).

Morning in the Burned House

, published in 1995, was her first book of poetry in over ten years, and in the meantime her novels and short stories had eclipsed her poetry; in particular the 1985 novel

The Handmaid’s Tale

brought…

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Citation: Sorensen, Sue. "Morning in the Burned House". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 19 September 2014 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=3504, accessed 26 November 2024.]

Margaret Atwood, Morning in the Burned House

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