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Archibald Lampman was born on November 17, 1861, in Morpeth, Canada West (now Ontario), into a respectable and cultured middle-class family.
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Archibald Lampman was born on November 17th 1861 at Morpeth, Ontario in Canada. Perhaps the finest Canadian Poet of his time he is classed as a Confederation Poet. A lover of camping it inspired much of his verse and helped him to become known as The Canadian Keats. Most of his poems are about the Countryside and the natural world. He wrote in excess of 300 poems and all reveal and revel in his observations of life and landscape. But his life was destined to be cut short. His health deteriorated, due in part to the death of his second son and his earlier problems caused by rheumatic fever. On February 10th, 1899 Archibald Lampman died of a weak heart, an after-effect of his childhood rheumatic fever in Ottawa at the age of only 37. He is buried at Beechwood Cemetery, in Ottawa, His grave is marked by a single word on his headstone "Lampman.". A nearby plaque cites his poem "In November": The hills grow wintry white, and bleak winds moan About the naked uplands. I alone Am neither sad, nor shelterless, nor gray Wrapped round with thought, content to watch and dream. In this volume, the first of three, we include Alycone and many other favourites.
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Archibald Lampman was born on November 17th 1861 at Morpeth, Ontario in Canada. Perhaps the finest Canadian Poet of his time he is classed as a Confederation Poet. A lover of camping it inspired much of his verse and helped him to become known as The Canadian Keats. Most of his poems are about the Countryside and the natural world. He wrote in excess of 300 poems and all reveal and revel in his observations of life and landscape. But his life was destined to be cut short. His health deteriorated, due in part to the death of his second son and his earlier problems caused by rheumatic fever. On February 10th, 1899 Archibald Lampman died of a weak heart, an after-effect of his childhood rheumatic fever in Ottawa at the age of only 37. He is buried at Beechwood Cemetery, in Ottawa, His grave is marked by a single word on his headstone "Lampman.". A nearby plaque cites his poem "In November": The hills grow wintry white, and bleak winds moan About the naked uplands. I alone Am neither sad, nor shelterless, nor gray Wrapped round with thought, content to watch and dream. In this volume, the third of three, we include Lyrics Of Earth and many other favourites.
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3 works of Archibald Lampman Canadian poet (1861-1899) This ebook presents a collection of 3 works of Archibald Lampman. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: Alcyone Among the Millet and Other Poems Lyrics of Earth
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Archibald Lampman was born on November 17, 1861, in Morpeth, Canada West (now Ontario), into a respectable and cultured middle-class family.
He was, in part, privately educated, completing his schooling in Cobourg and Port Hope. Lampman graduated in 1882 from Trinity, a constituent college of the University of Toronto.
Lampman's interest in writing and the arts had been aroused under the early tutoring of his clergyman father, he had written literary essays and poems for his college magazine, Rouge et noir.
After graduation Lampman taught school for 3 months, but finding this uncongenial he joined the Post-Office Department in Ottawa in 1883. In 1888 his first book of poems, Among the Millet, was published privately in Ottawa. By this time he had achieved a literary reputation, and his work appeared regularly in Canadian periodicals and prestigious American magazines like Harper's, Scribner's, and Atlantic Monthly. In 1895 his second collection of poems, Lyrics of Earth, was brought out by a Boston publisher.
The prime literary antecedents of Lampman lie in the work of the English poets Keats, Wordsworth, and Arnold, but he also brought new and distinctively Canadian elements to the tradition. Lampman, like others of his school, relied on the Canadian landscape to provide him with much of the imagery, stimulus, and philosophy which characterize his work. He was given to extensive and, for him, profoundly significant personal contact with nature, an outdoors pastime which weakened his fragile constitution. As a corollary to his preoccupation with nature, Lampman developed a critical stance toward an emerging urban civilization and a social order against which he pitted his own idealism.
Acutely observant in his method, Lampman created out of the minutiae of nature careful compositions of color, sound, and subtle movement. Evocatively rich, his poems are frequently sustained by a mood of revery and withdrawal, while their themes are those of beauty, wisdom, and reassurance, which the poet discovered in his contemplation of the changing seasons and the harmony of the countryside.
He died on February 10, 1899, while his third volume, Alcyone, was in press.
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He was an outspoken socialist.
In 1895 Lampman was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
He was a feminist, and a social critic.
On September 3, 1887, Lampman married 20-year-old Maude Emma Playter. They had a daughter, Natalie Charlotte, born in 1892. Arnold Gesner, born May 1894, was the first boy, but he died in August. A third child, Archibald Otto, was born in 1898.