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  Archibald Lampman (1861-1899) - Biographies - Canadian Poetry Archive
Widely regarded as Canada's finest 19th-century English-language poet, Archibald Lampman was a member of the so-called "Confederation" group of poets which also included Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman and Duncan Campbell Scott.
Lampman was born in 1861 in Morpeth, Ontario, a village near Chatham.
Lampman's literary talent was recognized and appreciated, and in 1895 he was elected to the Royal Society of Canada.
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 Archibald Lampman Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
The Canadian poet Archibald Lampman (1861-1899) was one of a loosely defined group of writers known as the "Confederation Poets" whose work represents the first significant literary movement in Canada.
Archibald Lampman was born on Nov. 17, 1861, in Morpeth, Canada West (now Ontario), into a respectable and cultured middle-class family.
Lampman graduated in 1882 from Trinity, a constituent college of the University of Toronto.
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 100 Canadian Poets - Archibald Lampman - Profile
Lampman associated with Charles G.D. Roberts, Susanna Moodie, Catherine Parr Traill, Duncan Campbell Scott, and Wilfred Campbell.
Lampman was one of the Confederation Poets and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1895.
At the Mermaid Inn: Wilfred Campbell, Archibald Lampman, Duncan Campbell Scott in The Globe 1892-93.
www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/faculties/HUM/ENGL/canada/poet/a_lampman.htm   (567 words)

  
 Poet: Archibald Lampman - All poems of Archibald Lampman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Lampman was born in 1861 in Morpeth, Ontario, a village near Cha..
The Poems of Archibald Lampman Lampman, Archibald, 1861-1899 -- The Poems of Archibald Lampman -- Toronto : GN Morang, 1900.
Archibald Lampman was slight of form and of middle height.
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 Free Essays - The Work Of Poet And Philosoher Archibald Lampman
Poet and philosopher Archibald Lampman (1861-1899) led not a life of his
Dying far before his time, Lampman led a life of misery.
Lampmans poems often immediately assumed a tone of life, mirth, and a feeling of
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 RPO -- Selected Poetry of Archibald Lampman (1861-1899)
Archibald Lampman was born in 1861 in Morpeth, Ontario, a village near Chatham and Ridgetown at the intersection of routes 3 and 17.
After a short time teaching high school in Orangeville, Lampman took a position as a low-paid clerk in the Langevin Block of the Canadian Post Office in the nation's capital at Ottawa, where he stayed for the rest of his life.
Lampman is widely regarded as Canada's greatest poet of the nineteenth century.
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 ::Arc Poetry::Mag::Archibald Lampman Award::
Archibald Lampman was Canada's finest 19th century poet.
The Arc Poetry Society is accepting submissions for the 2007 Archibald Lampman Award for Poetry.
Named after the 19th-century Confederation poet, Archibald Lampman, the award recognizes an outstanding book of English-language poetry by an author living in the National Capital Region.
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 Archibald Lampman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An annual literary prize, the Archibald Lampman Award, is named in Lampman's honour, as is the town of Lampman, Saskatchewan.
[1] A small town of approximately 730 people, containing prestigious families such as the Veroba family, Lampman is situated close to the City of Estevan, the eighth largest city in Saskatchewan very close to bordering the United States of America.
Lampman’s Sonnets : The Complete Sonnets of Archibald Lampman, edited by Margaret Coulby Whitridge.
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 Twenty-Five Fugitive Poems by Archibald Lampman
The shape of Lampman's career is implied in this collection, in that the most interesting of the later fugitive pieces are not "nature work." The two long poems, "Sebastian" and "The Settler's Tale," register disparate ideas of heroism and destiny.
This poem, written in 1893, eerily foreshadows Lampman's own grievous loss of a child a year later, and reflects his new and disturbing sense of a grim idiocy at the very gates of life.
In a letter responding to criticism of several works submitted for his friend Thomson's opinion, Lampman admitted that he had "suspected that 'The Settler's Tale' was rubbish," even though "I seemed to write those pieces under the influence of a genuine impulse," and he resolved to discard the poem, "which I fully agree.
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 Archibald Lampman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Lampman dedicated his third volume of verse, Alcyone, as follows: "To the memory of my father, himself a poet, who first instructed me in the art of verse"; and we are told by his biographer that there had been poets and scientists on his mother's side of the house.
When Archibald had entered his sixth year, the family left Morpeth, resided for a time at Perrytown, near Port Hope, and in October, 1867, moved to Gore's Landing, a small community on the shore of Rice Lake.
In 1887, Lampman married Maud, the youngest daughter of Dr. Edward Playter, of Toronto, and during their twelve [Page 63] years of happiness, several children were born to them.
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 Archibald Lampman: See what people are saying right now on Technorati
Archibald Lampman: See what people are saying right now on Technorati
Laura Farina wins the 2006 Archibald Lampman Award for her book This Woman Alphabetical, from Pedlar...
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 Archibald Lampman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
One thing the hand of Time shall spare,
Note: Archibald Lampman, 1861-1899, Canadian poet belonging to the Confederation group, a radical and influenced by British romanticism.
The Poems of Archibald Lampman and Lyrics of Earth: Poems and Ballads were published posthumously.
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