William Wilfred Campbell

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This is a representative collection of the writings of a neglected Canadian author, William Wilfred Campbell (1858-1918).

Among the 112 poems in William Wilfred Campbell: Selected Poetry and Essays are the familiar “Indian Summer” and “How One Winter Came in the Lake Region,” along with many less well-known love poems, patriotic songs, and occasional poems. Some twenty manuscript pieces are published here for the first time.

The notorious “Mermaid Inn” essay in which Campbell refers to the mythical nature of the cross is included, and so is the letter of self-justification that Campbell wrote—but never sent—to the editor of the Globe. Here, too, are speeches, essays published in The Week and the Ottawa Evening Journal, and significant sections from Campbells unfinished treatise on evolution, “The Tragedy of Man.”

By the time Campbell died on New Year’s Day 1918, shifting values had begun to turn critical opinion against his work. Now William Wilfred Campbell: Selected Poetry and Essays will enable Canadians to appreciate Campbells art and to recognize his place in the development of Canadian thought.

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• Literary criticism
• Poetry

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• Publié par: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Date de parution: 04 décembre 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780889205253
• Langue: English

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WILLIAM WILFRED CAMPBELL
Selected Poetry and Essays
Edited and with an Introduction by LAUREL BOONE
This is a representative collection of the writings of a neglected Canadian author, William Wilfred Campbell (1858-1918).
Among the 112 poems in William Wilfred Campbell: Selected Poetry and Essays are the familiar Indian Summer and How One Winter Came in the Lake Region, along with many less well-known love poems, mystical poems, dramatic and narrative poems, war poems, patriotic songs, and occasional poems. Some twenty manuscript pieces are published here for the first time.
The notorious Mermaid Inn essay in which Campbell refers to the mythical nature of the cross is included, and so is the letter of self-justification that Campbell wrote-but never sent-to the editor of the Globe. Here, too, are speeches, essays published in The Week and the Ottawa Evening Journal, and significant sections from Campbell s unfinished treatise on evolution, The Tragedy of Man.
By the time Campbell died on New Year s Day 1918, shifting values had begun to turn critical opinion against his work. Now William Wilfred Campbell: Selected Poetry and Essays will enable Canadians to appreciate Campbell s art and to recognize his place in the development of Canadian thought.
Laurel Boone is a specialist in late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Canadian poetry, essays, and letters. She has edited the collected letters of Charles G.D. Roberts, and is writing a new biography of William Wilfred Campbell.
William Wilfred Campbell as a young man, probably when he was at the University of Toronto, 1881-1883. (Queen s University)
WILLIAM WILFRED CAMPBELL Selected Poetry and Essays
WILLIAM WILFRED CAMPBELL Selected Poetry and Essays

Edited and with an Introduction by LAUREL BOONE

Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Campbell, Wilfred, 1860-1918. William Wilfred Campbell : selected poetry and essays
Bibliography: p. Includes index. ISBN 0-88920-960-X
I. Boone, Laurel, 1942- . II. Title.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CHRONOLOGY
ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION
POETRY
ESSAYS
At the Mermaid Inn
Views on Canadian Literature
Life and Letters
Imperialism in Canada
Introduction to The Collected Poems of Wilfred Campbell
Shakespeare and the Latter-Day Drama
The Tragedy of Man
Canada s Responsibility to the Empire and the Race
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
In preparing this selection of Wilfred Campbell s poetry and essays, I have received enthusiastic help from Queen s University Archivist Anne MacDermaid and Archives Assistant Marion Helen Cobb, who took care of my needs in person and fulfilled numerous requests by mail while I was gathering material and information. Throughout the project, Professor Barrie Davies and Professor Emeritus Fred Cogswell, of the University of New Brunswick Department of English, advised and encouraged me. Dr. Peter Kepros, University of New Brunswick Dean of Arts, and Professor Robert Cockburn, Chairman of the Department of English at the University of New Brunswick, steered the book safely through financial difficulties. Lady Diana Grey Burford has kindly given her permission to use manuscript materials. I am deeply grateful to all of these people for their help. But I owe my greatest debt of thanks to my husband, Edward Mullaly, without whose faith and support this lengthy project would certainly have foundered.
This edition was prepared with the financial aid of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and grants from the Faculty of Arts of the University of New Brunswick. It has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
CHRONOLOGY
1860 Born, probably at Farmersville (Athens), Canada West, the second son of the Reverend Thomas Swainston Campbell and Matilda Frances Wright. His grandfather, the Reverend Thomas Campbell, had founded St. Thomas Church, Belleville, Canada West. Matilda Frances Wright Campbell was born at Walworth Manor, Surrey, England, and she moved with her family to an estate near Belleville when she was a girl.
1872 Moved to Wiarton, on Georgian Bay.
1877-79 Attended high school in Owen Sound and obtained a third-class teaching certificate.
1879-80 Taught schools at Zion and Purple Valley, near Wiarton.
1880 Entered University College, University of Toronto; matriculated in June 1881.
1881 Verses, Varsity (February 19,1881). This poem, signed Huron, was the first of twenty-six poems by Campbell published in Varsity between 1881 and 1888. Poems!, a booklet probably printed by the Wiarton Echo before October 1881. It is Campbell s first collection of poems.
1882 Entered Wycliffe College on December 13 to study for the Anglican priesthood.
1883 Entered Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1884(?) Married Mary Louisa DeBelle of Stratford, Ontario, a Wiarton teacher.
1885 Canadian Folk Song, Atlantic Monthly (January 1885). This was Campbell s first publication in an important periodical. June 17: Graduated from Episcopal Theological School. July 2: Ordained a deacon and began his ministry at West Claremont, New Hampshire.
1886 Margery Berridge Stuart Campbell born. July 7: Ordained priest at West Claremont.
1887 Snow (West Claremont: privately printed, Christmas 1887). This was Campbell s first Christmas pamphlet.
1888 Faith Lyster Campbell born. July 1: Became rector of Trinity Church, St. Stephen, New Brunswick. November: Snowflakes and Sunbeams (St. Stephen, N.B.: St. Croix Courier Press, 1888).
1889 Basil Berridge Campbell born. August: Lake Lyrics and Other Poems (Saint John: McMillan, 1889).
1890 November 2: Installed as rector of St. Paul s Church, Southampton, Ontario, near Wiarton.
1891 April: The Mother published in Harper s Monthly. May 18: Became a temporary clerk in the Department of Railways and Canals, Ottawa. June 10: Wrote The Dead Leader, his first occasional poem, on the day of Sir John A. Macdonald s funeral.
1892 February 5: Dorothy Catherine Mackay Campbell born. February 6-July 1, 1893: Collaborated with Archibald Lampman and Duncan Campbell Scott to write a weekly column, At the Mermaid Inn, for the Toronto Globe. August 1: Became a clerk in the Department of the Secretary of State, his first permanent civil service appointment.
1893 August: The Dread Voyage (Toronto: Briggs, 1893).
1894 Elected to the Royal Society of Canada.
1895 Mordred and Hildebrand (Ottawa: Durie, 1895).
1896 July 1896-January 1897: Contributed to, and probably helped edit, an Ottawa magaine called The Lounger.
1897 Summer: Visited Britain for the first time. Harvest Slumber Song, music by Alicia Adelaide Needham (London: Boosey, 1897), Campbell s first published song.
1899 Beyond the Hills of Dream (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1899; Toronto: Morang, 1900).
1900 Elected vice-president, Section II, Royal Society of Canada.
1901 Elected president, Section II, Royal Society of Canada. Summer: Second trip to Britain. December 28: H.A. Harper, commemorating the heroism of William Lyon Mackenzie King s best friend, published in the Ottawa Evening Journal. Because of the poem, King and Campbell became lifelong friends.
1903 Elected secretary, Section II, Royal Society of Canada, an office he held until 1911. August 29,1903-June 24,1905: Contributed a weekly column, Life and Letters, to the Ottawa Evening Journal.
1905 The Collected Poems of Wilfred Campbell (Toronto: Briggs; Toronto: Ryerson; London and New York: Revell, 1905).
1906 Ian of the Orcades or The Armourer of Girnigoe (London: Revell, 1906). September 26: Represented the Royal Society of Canada at the quatercentenary of the founding of Aberdeen University, where he received an honorary LLD. On September 27, he was presented to King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra.
1907 Canada, illustrated by T. Mower Martin (London: Black, 1907).
1908 The Poetical Tragedies of Wilfred Campbell (Toronto: Briggs, 1908). August 26: Promoted to Public Archives clerk because of his fine historical work. Campbell remained an Archives clerk until his death.
1909 A Beautiful Rebel (Toronto: Westminster; London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909).
1910 The Canadian Lake Region (Toronto: Musson, 1910; rev. ed. 1914).
1911 May-September: Visited Britain, where he viewed the coronation of King George V with the Royal Household at Buckingham Palace. The Scotsman in Canada, volume 1 (Toronto: Musson, 1911).
1913 August 1913-January 1914: Contributed a weekly column, Historic Shrines and Homes of Canada, to the Montreal Daily Telegraph. Edited Poems of Loyalty: By British and Canadian Authors (London: Nelson, 1913).
1914 Sagas of Vaster Britain (Toronto: Musson, 1914). Edited The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse (Toronto: Oxford, [1914]).
1915 Moved to a small farm in City View, outside Ottawa, which he christened Kilmorie House.
1918 Langemarck and Other Poems (Ottawa: privately printed, January 1, 1918). On New Year s Day 1918, Campbell died of pneumonia. William