A Canadian Visionary From: Literary Review of Canada | Date: December 1, 2007| Author: Porter, J S | Copyright Literary Review of Canada Dec 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

A Canadian Visionary A new book digs into the influences on Grant's thought. J.S. PORTER George Grant: A Guide to His Thought Hugh Donald Forbes University of Toronto Press 301 pages ISBN 9780802043184, hardcover ISBN 9780802081421, soft cover

George Grant is our William Blake, a visionary in prose rather than poetry, a thinker who sees more than he can say, who speaks in notes, asides and intimations. Despite their philosophic differences, Grant, like Blake, sees and opposes technolog...

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