Kidd, Adam:

$850 · Offered by William Reese Company

THE HURON CHIEF, AND OTHER POEMS. Kidd emigrated to Canada from Ireland at a young age and, after being rejected for the priesthood, he began publishing poetry. The epic main poem consumes over half the text, with nearly forty shorter poems comprising the rest. Kidd claims that he traveled extensively among the First Nations of Upper Canada, and his poetry carries great sympathy for the people and their exploitation at the hands of European settlers. He writes that the "Huron Chief" was composed "on the inner rind of birch bark, during my travels through the immense forests of America, and under many difficulties and privations." He also claims that the poems would soon be published in native languages.

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