Abstract

In 1789 Abram's Plains, A Poem was 'Printed for the Author,' Thomas Cary, at Quebec, with a preface which commented genially on that author's literary taste and ambitions. After judging 'descriptive poetry, that exhibits a picture of the real scenes of nature, to be the most difficult to excel in' and blank verse in general to be superior to rhyme, because requiring 'greater strength of imagination,' Cary concludes that 'amongst the moderns ... the harmonious Thomson ... [is] unrivalled' as a practioner of both. 'I cannot help making this avowal however much it may operate against myself,' he declares, for his poem is in the most popular form of the period, the heroic couplet.

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