Let Us Compare Mythologies

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1st edition (publ. Contact Press), illustrated by Freda Guttman

Let Us Compare Mythologies is the first poetry book by Canadian poet and songwriter Leonard Cohen.

About

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.Template:Cn

History

2nd edition, 1966.

Written in 1956, shortly after Cohen left McGill University where he had studied English literature, it was published that year as the inaugural volume of the McGill Poetry Series operated by Louis Dudek, in an edition of about 400. (The first edition is now a prized rare book, with copies selling for over $1,000.)

The collection was republished in 1966 by McClelland & Stewart.

In 2007, the book returned to print in a 50th anniversary facsimile edition, published by Ecco Press.

Contents

1. Elegy
2. For Wilf and his House
3. The Song of the Hellenist (For R.K.)
4. Prayer for Messiah
5. Rites
6. Rededication
7. Pioneers
8. The Sparrows
9. Item
10. City Christ
11. Song of Patience
12. When this American Woman
13. These Heroics
14. Folk Song
15. Song
16. Friends
17. Lovers
18. The Warrior Boats
19. Letter
20. Pagans
21. Song
22. Prayer for Sunset
23. Ballad
24. Saint Catherine Street
25. Ballad ("My lady was found mutilated")
26. Summer Night
27. The Flier
28. Had We Nothing to Prove
29. Satan in Westmount
30. Fragment of Baroque
31. Twilight
32. To I.P.L.
33. Poem
34. Halloween Poem
35. On Certain Incredible Nights
36. Jingle
37. The Fly
38. Warning
39. Les Vieux
40. Story
41. Saviours
42. Exodus
43. "Just the Worst Time"
44. Beside the Shepherd

Table of contents courtesy A Concordance to the Poems, Prose and Songs of Leonard Cohen

See also

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