Confederation Poets
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Confederation Poets is the name given to a group of Canadian poets born in the decade of Canada's Confederation who rose to prominence in Canada in the late 1880s and 1890s. The term was coined by Can
Sir Charles G.D. Roberts
Isabella Valancy Crawford, c.1919
Duncan Campbell Scott
Archibald Lampman
Duncan Campbell Scott
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Duncan Campbell Scott was a Canadian civil servant and poet and prose writer. With Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, and Archibald Lampman, he is classed as one of Canada's Confederation Poets.
Confederation Poets
…critic Malcolm Ross, who applied it to four poets – Charles G.D. Roberts (1860–1943), Bliss Carman (1861–1929), Archibald Lampman (1861–1899), and Duncan Campbell Scott (1862–1947) – in the Introduction to his 1960 anthology, Poets of the Confederation. He wrote, "It is fair enough, I think, to call Roberts, Carman…
Duncan Campbell Scott
Cover of Lundy's Lane and Other Poems, 1916
Letter from Duncan Campbell Scott of Canada Department Of Indian Affairs To Staff