Canadian anthologies new and old.--Introduction to The book of Canadian poetry.--Critics and biographers.--The poetry of Duncan Campbell Scott.--The refining fire.--A salute to Layton.--Introduction to The blasted pine.--To Jay Macpherson, on her Book of poems.--A garland for E. J. Pratt.--Two book reviews.--The poet and the nuclear crisis.--Poet in residence.--To Frank Scott, Esq. on the occasion of his seventieth birthday.--The poetics of Alfred Bailey.--The confessions of a compulsive anthologist