The Lover's Progress Fiction which sheltered both the innocent

which sheltered both the innocent and the damned

1974) was a Canadian poet and political activist who came to be known as "God’s Red Poet"

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Faced with his own mortality

Born in Calgary

The Lover's Progress Fiction which sheltered both the innocentDavid Solway opts for a bawdier approach to the lyric in The Lovers Progress. He models his lyric sequence on William Hogarths famous series of paintings, The Rakes Progress (1733 35), and transports the rakish protagonist at the centre of Hogarths narrative into the twenty first century. Solway makes the rake a cruiser of bars, women, and philosophies, as well as a dabbler in poetry. Perpetually in motion, the lover travels from Canada to Greece and