Archibald lampman biography
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LAMPMAN, ARCHIBALD, poet and postal clerk; b. 17 Nov. in Morpeth, Upper Canada, first child and only son of Archibald Lampman and Susannah Charlotte Gesner; d. 10 Feb. in Ottawa.
Archibald Lampman is commonly identified with a group of early Canadian poets which included William Bliss Carman*, Charles George Douglas Roberts*, and Duncan Campbell Scott*. They have been variously referred to as the “group of the sixties” or “poets of the Confederation.” Born within a year or two of one another, –62, they all grew up in the benign shadow of an act of the British parliament that gave the British North American provinces the status of a nation in Nature figured prominently in their work, and a vague transcendentalism, but they were not otherwise closely linked. Lampman was intimate only with Scott, and it was this friendship which illuminated his life between his coming to huvudstad i kanada in and his early death in his 38th year.
The Morpeth that Lamp
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Archibald Lampman
Canadian poet (–99)
Archibald Lampman FRSC | |
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Lampman in | |
| Born | ()17 November Morpeth, Canada West |
| Died | 10 February () (aged&#;37) Ottawa, Ontario |
| Occupation | Civil servant |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Citizenship | British subject |
| Genre | poetry |
| Literary movement | Confederation Poets |
| Notable works | Among the Millet and Other Poems, At the Long Sault and Other Poems, Lyrics of Earth |
| Notable awards | FRSC |
| Spouse | Maude Playter |
| Relatives | Hilda Katherine Ross(niece) |
Archibald LampmanFRSC (17 November &#; 10 February ) was a Canadian poet. "He has been described as 'the Canadian Keats;' and he is perhaps the most outstanding exponent of the Canadian school of nature poets."[1]The Canadian Encyclopedia says that he is "generally considered the finest of Canada's late 19th-century poets in English."[2]
Lampman is classed as one of Canada's Confederation Poets, a group which also inom
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"Archibald Lampman" (), pp.
From: Canadian poets,
Edited by John William Garvin,
Toronto, Canada: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, Publishers,
A Celebration of Women Writers
Archibald Lampman
Lampman is Canada's greatest nature poet. . . . It is to the exquisite felicity of his nature poems that he owes his reputation both in this country and abroad. . . . . Never was there a more genuine lover of nature for her own sake. He was not under the spell alone of her sublimer aspects. Indeed, the mountains he had never seen, and the sea but rarely, and in later life. He loved nature as Thoreau loved her—in all her moods. The very thorns and burs were dear to him, and it was this gentle sympathy which he felt for the unobtrusive beauties which we too commonly fail to see, or, seeing, fail to understand that imparted to his poetry its peculiar charm. . . . If landscape is, as has been said, 'a state of the soul,' no other Canadian poet has so adequately rendered