LET US COMPARE MYTHOLOGIES






Title Let Us Compare Mythologies
Year published 1956
Publisher McGill Poetry Series Number One, Contact Press, Toronto
Pages 80 pages, with six line-in drawings by Freda Guttman
Notes Reprinted by McClelland And Stewart Ltd., Toronto, 1966
The poems were written between the ages of fifteen and twenty
Summary 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.



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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