a time when any impulse in a backwater would have been valued" (p. 381). Elsewhere he compared Lampman's style to "one of those rambling, barrack-like houses once common to New England and our own eastern landscapes," formerly stylish but now outdated. Just as the smaller bungalow had replaced the large family home, so too would the more compact verse replace nineteenth- century styles. The tone of these attacks is disturbing. Leacock, Lampman, Roberts, and the others he mentioned do not deserve to be relegated to some literary trash heap. We must remember that at this time Roberts and the others had the status of literary giants and that one dramatic way for a newcomer to get attention has always been to play the part of the iconoclast. This, probably, was what Knister was doing in his excessively fierce criticism. Knister was not, however, a mere fault-finder. He was prepared to offer a solution to the problems he perceived. In his opinion, Canada needed a little magazine "devoted to creative work ... perhaps only a few pages every month, yet chosen for vital quality ... which should give a voice to what is actually being lived among us" ("Canadian Letter," p. 379). Through this medium, he hoped, a distinctively Canadian voice would be heard. Publications Poetry Collected Poems of Raymond Knister. Dorothy Livesay ed. Toronto, Ryerson, 1949. Windfalls for Cider: The poems of Ray Knister. Joy Kuropatwa ed. Windsor, ON: Black Moss, 1983. After Exile complete poems compiled by Gregory Betts (Exile, 2003) Prose White Narcissus. London, UK: Cape, 1929. Toronto: Macmillan, 1929. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart New Canadian Library, 1962, 1990. My Star Predominant. Toronto: Ryerson, 1934. Selected Stories of Raymond Knister. Michael Gnarowski ed. Ottawa. U of Ottawa P, 1972. "Canadian Literati." Raymond Knister. Journal of Canadian Fiction, No. 14 (1975), 160. Raymond Knister: Poems, Stories and Essays ed. David Aronson (1975) The First Day of Spring. Stories and Other Prose. Toronto, Buffalo: U of Toronto P, 1976. , There Was a Mr. Cristi (Windsor: Black Moss, 2006) Boy Remembers in the Field (2006) Grapes (2006) Hackman's Night. Windsor: Black Moss, 2007. Soil in Smoke (unpublished) Turning Loam (unpublished) Edited Canadian Short Stories. Toronto: Macmillan, 1928. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries P, 1971. Fonds The Raymond Knister papers. Bruce Whiteman comp. Hamilton, ON: Mills Memorial Library, McMaster U, 1981. Raymond Knister fonds. Rev. ed. Toronto: Victoria University Library, 2006.