Archibald Lampman
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Archibald Lampman
Source: Topley Studio / Library and Archives Canada / PA-027190 |
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| Born |
17 November 1861 Morpeth, Upper Canada |
| Died | 10 February 1899 (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 |
Archibald Lampman FRSC (17 November 1861 – 10 February 1899) 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." The Canadian Encyclopedia says that he is "generally considered the finest of Canada's late 19th-century poets in English."
Lampman is classed as one of Canada's Confederation Poets, a group which also includes Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, and Duncan Campbell Scott.
Archibald Lampman was born at Morpeth, Ontario, a village near Chatham, the son of Archibald Lampman, an Anglican clergyman. "The Morpeth that Lampman knew was a small town set in the rolling farm country of what is now western Ontario, not far from the shores of Lake Erie. The little red church just east of the town, on the Talbot Road, was his father’s charge."
In 1867 the family moved to Gore's Landing on Rice Lake, Ontario, where young Archie Lampman attended at the Barron's School. In 1868 he contracted rheumatic fever, which left him lame for some years and with a permanently weakened heart.
Lampman attended Cobourg Collegiate, followed by Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario, and then Trinity College in Toronto, Ontario (now part of the University of Toronto), graduating in 1882. While at university, he published early poems in Acta Victoriana, the literary journal of Victoria College. In 1883, after a frustrating attempt to teach high school in Orangeville, Ontario, he took an appointment as a low-paid clerk in the Post Office Department in Ottawa, a position he held for the rest of his life.
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