Charles Doyle is Professor of English at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. He has also lectured at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is a poet, editor, critic and biographer and has written on political subjects. His previous publications include James K. Baxter, Stonedancer, William Carlos Williams: The Critical Heritage, William Carlos Williams and the American Poem, A Steady Hand, The New Reality: The Politics of Restraint in British Columbia, Wallace Stevens: The Critical Heritage and After Bennett: A New Politics for British Columbia.