William Wilfred Campbell

William Wilfred Campbell ( * 1858 in Ontario, † January 1, 1918 in Ottawa ) was a Canadian writer.

About date and place Campbells different information is given: it is June 1, 1858 and the birthplace Kitchener, but also June 15, 1860 and the birthplace Newmarket called. The son of the Reverend Thomas Swainston Campbell grew up in different small towns of Ontario. He attended from 1877 to 1879, the high school in Owen Sound and earned a teacher certificate. From 1882 to 1882 he studied at University College, University of Toronto, it is the study of theology at Wycliffe College graduated (1882 ) and at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge on.

1885 Campbell was ordained as a deacon and was given a job in West Claremont / New Hampshire; 1886 was his ordination as a priest. In 1888 he Rector of Trinity Church in St. Stephen / New Brunswick, 1890 Rector in Southampton / Ontario St Paul's Church was. In 1891 he got a job as a clerk at the Department of Railways and Canals, Ottawa, 1892, he joined the Department of the Secretary of State, in the following year to the Department of Militia and Defence and 1897 to the Privy Council Office. In 1908 he got a job in the archives of the Department of Agriculture, a position he held until his death.

The first volume of poetry Campbells DERS chien during his studies in 1881 ( Poems! ). Between 1881 and 1888 several poems in the magazine varsity were. His first publication in a major journal ( Atlantic Monthly ) was Canadian Folk Song ( 1885). In 1888 he published his first volume of poetry Snowflakes and sunbeams, in which his poem Indian Summer - was included - still one of the most popular Canadian poems. In the next year the band Lake lyrics and other poems followed.

With Duncan Campbell Scott and Archibald Lampman 1892-93 he wrote weekly columns under the title At the Mermaid Inn for the magazine Globe. In 1893 he published his next book of poems The dread voyage. In 1894, Campbell was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada. It was founded in 1899 as Vice President, was from 1900 to 1901 and President from 1903 to 1911 secretary of the Section II of the Company. From 1895 he wrote seven verse plays, the first two of 1895 under the title Mordred and Hildebrand: a book of tragedies and 1908 published two more than Poetical tragedies.

After 1900, his three novels of the Orcades Ian (1906 ), A beautiful rebel (1909 ) and Richard Frizzell created ( serialized 1909-1910 in The Christian Guardian published ). His patriotism and enthusiasm for the British Empire - inspired by his friendship with contemporaries such as the Duke of Argyll, Lord Grey, Nicholas Flood Davin, William Dawson LeSueur, Charles Albert Edwin Harriss and Robert Tait McKenzie - was reflected in works such as Poems of loyalty by British and Canadian authors ( London, 1913), The Oxford book of Canadian verse (Toronto, 1913) and sagas of vaster Britain (1914 ) down.

Campbell died on New Year's Day in 1918 of pneumonia. After his death, his popularity faded quickly. His political beliefs were unpopular, its traditional character for literary production lagged behind the works of contemporaries such as Charles George Douglas Roberts, William Bliss Carman, Duncan Campbell Scott and Archibald Lampman.

Works

  • Snowflakes and sunbeams, 1888
  • Lake lyrics and other poems, 1889
  • The dread voyage: poems, 1893
  • Beyond the hills of dream, 1899
  • Ian of the Orcades; or, the armourer of Girnigoe, 1906
  • The collected poems of Wilfred Campbell, 1905 ( with illustrations by Thomas Mower Martin 1907)
  • Poetical tragedies in 1908
  • A beautiful rebel: a romance of Upper Canada in eighteen hundred and twelve, 1909
  • The beauty, history, romance and mystery of the Canadian lake region, 1910
  • The Scotsman in Canada, 1911
  • Sagas of vaster Britain; poems of the race, the empire and the divinity of man, 1914

Swell

  • Dictionary of Canadian Biography - Campbell, William Wilfred
  • William Wilfred Campbell: "Selected Poetry and Essays ," Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 1987, ISBN 9780889209602
  • The Canadian Encyclopedia - William Wilfred Campbell
  • Canadian Poetry - William Wilfred Campbell
  • Canadian Poetry - Confederation Voices: Seven Canadian Poets - VI - William Wilfred Campbell
  • Poets' Pathway - William Wilfred Campbell
  • University of Toronto Libre Ries - Campbell, William Wilfred
  • Author
  • Poetry
  • Drama
  • Novel, epic
  • Literature ( English )
  • Canadian literature
  • Canadian
  • Born in the 19th century
  • Died in 1918
  • Man
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