TASKS OF PASSION

This is the first in a series of books on important contemporary Canadian writers who have had insufficient recognition or whose work cannot he completely described by the use of traditional critical methodologies alone. An appropriate figure to begin with, Dennis Lee has had an unusually varied career poet, editor, essayist, reviewer and 'journalist, children's writer, educator, lyricist (and this list is far from complete) a career in which these roles so blend into one another that any account of his work tends to be, at best, partial.

- from the preface.

Tasks of Passion was published in 1982.