ENGL 372 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Six Nations Of The Grand River, Northrop Frye, Frank Davey
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The poems of archibald lampman (1861-1899) and the confederation poets - modelling work after british poets. Was born in morpeth, ontario, a village in canada west on lake erie and spent his childhood in the rice lake district near peterborough and cobourg, where he met susanna moodie and. He went to trinity college, toronto, and became a high school teacher and realizes soon after he doesn"t life it. He settled in ottawa where he worked as a civil servant in the. In ottawa he met another civil servant and poet duncan campbell scott, and the two became close friends. They spent a good deal of time together on canoeing expeditions and discussing their real work which was poetry. Lampman"s poetry comes directly out of the english romantic school, especially the writing of. We can see a recurring pattern in his poetry which favourably compares the rural to the urban, a common pattern in pastoral poetry.