Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall was born on 14 September 1883 at Gunnersbury, then in Middlesex, England, and died on 22 April 1922 in Vancouver, British Columbia. During her lifetime she was among the best-known and most admired poets in Canada, a writer whose delicately fashioned lyrics, religious imagination, and exact attention to the natural world won readers on both sides of the Atlantic. Her posthumous reput…
“Don't keep reminding me I'm a poet. I very seldom feel equal to living up to my own Immortal Verse.”
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William Wilfred Campbell, often known simply as Wilfred Campbell, stands as one of the most distinctive voices in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Canadian literature. A member of the Confederation Poets—the group that gave Canada its first truly national literary flowering after 1867—he captured the raw, majestic spirit of the Canadian landscape with a passion that still stirs the imagination today. His…
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