Douglas Gordon Jones has made important contributions to the literature of contemporary Canada in all of his several avocations of poet, critic, editor, and translator. He is most highly regarded for his poetry; one volume, Under the Thunder the Flowers Light up the Earth (1977), earned him the Governor General's Award for poetry in English. His criticism has also received extensive attention, especially his Butterfly on Rock (1970), which was the first book-length work of mythopoeic criticism of Canadian literature, published shortly before Northrop Frye's The Bush Garden (1971), Eli Mandel's anthology Contexts of Canadian Criticism (1971), and Margaret Atwood's Survival (1972). Jones has also been a pioneer in the effort to bring Canada's two major literatures together: in 1969 he helped to establish the journal Ellipse, "a quarterly review designed to present the work of French and English in translation." Jones has served Ellipse not only as founding editor but also as a...