| Sumario: | References to reading, authors, and literary texts feature prominently in the extensive oeuvre of Canadian writer and professor Elizabeth Brewster (1922–2012), who published poetry, fiction, memoir, and literary criticism over the course of her long career. Brewster is most often remembered for her connections to Canadian literary modernism and East Coast literature. This article contributes to a more thorough understanding of Brewster's work beyond regional and periodization frameworks. Detailing the rich intertextuality of her writing, the article analyses her poetic representations of her literary peers, her evocations of writers from across the centuries, and her citational and intertextual devices. With examples including Margaret Atwood, Bliss Carman, Samuel Coleridge, H.D., Alden Nowlan, P.K. Page, Ezra Pound, and more, this article demonstrates that Brewster incorporates these writers and their words into her poetry through strategies that blend the intertextual, biographical, and autobiographical. Ultimately, Brewster's devotion to reading and her creative practice conjure transhistorical textual communities.
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