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Confederation Poets, the Glossary

Index Confederation Poets

Confederation Poets is the name given to a group of Canadian poets born in the decade of Canada's Confederation (the 1860s) who rose to prominence in Canada in the late 1880s and 1890s.[1]

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  1. 60 relations: A. J. M. Smith, American poetry, Archibald Lampman, Beaumont and Fletcher, Ben Jonson, Bliss Carman, British literature, Canadian Confederation, Canadian Forum, Canadian literature, Canadian nationalism, Canadian poetry, Canon (basic principle), Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Heavysege, Charles Mair, Charles Sangster, Classics, Confederation, Cosmopolitanism, Department of National Defence (Canada), Dorothy Livesay, Duncan Campbell Scott, E. Pauline Johnson, English poetry, Ezra Pound, F. R. Scott, Francis Joseph Sherman, Frederick George Scott, Free verse, George Frederick Cameron, Goldwin Smith, Group of Seven (artists), Imagism, Isabella Valancy Crawford, James Reaney, Literary magazine, Literary modernism, Malcolm Ross (literary critic), Marjorie Pickthall, Mermaid Tavern, Modernism, Modernist poetry in English, Montreal Group, Nationalism, Northrop Frye, Progressivism, Raymond Knister, Romantic poetry, Songs of the Great Dominion, ... Expand index (10 more) »

  2. Canadian literary movements
  3. Canadian poetry
  4. History of literature in Canada

A. J. M. Smith

Arthur James Marshall Smith (November 8, 1902 – November 21, 1980) was a Canadian poet and anthologist.

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American poetry

American poetry refers to the poetry of the United States.

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Archibald Lampman

Archibald Lampman (17 November 1861 – 10 February 1899) was a Canadian poet. Confederation Poets and Archibald Lampman are 19th-century Canadian poets and Romantic poets.

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Beaumont and Fletcher

Beaumont and Fletcher were the English dramatists Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, who collaborated in their writing during the reign of James I (1603–25).

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Ben Jonson

Benjamin Jonson was an English playwright and poet.

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Bliss Carman

William Bliss Carman (April 15, 1861 – June 8, 1929) was a Canadian poet who lived most of his life in the United States, where he achieved international fame. Confederation Poets and Bliss Carman are 19th-century Canadian poets and Romantic poets.

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British literature

British literature is from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands.

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Canadian Confederation

Canadian Confederation (Confédération canadienne) was the process by which three British North American provinces—the Province of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick—were united into one federation, called the Dominion of Canada, on July 1, 1867.

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Canadian Forum

The Canadian Forum was a literary, cultural and political publication and Canada's longest running continually published political magazine (1920–2000).

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Canadian literature

Canadian literature is written in several languages including English, French, and to some degree various Indigenous languages.

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Canadian nationalism

Canadian nationalism seeks to promote the unity, independence, and well-being of Canada and the Canadian people.

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Canadian poetry

Canadian poetry is poetry of or typical of Canada.

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Canon (basic principle)

The term canon derives from the Greek, meaning "rule", and thence via Latin and Old French into English.

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Charles G. D. Roberts

Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (January 10, 1860 – November 26, 1943) was a Canadian poet and prose writer. Confederation Poets and Charles G. D. Roberts are 19th-century Canadian poets.

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Charles Heavysege

Charles Heavysege (May 2, 1816 – July 14, 1876) was a Canadian poet and dramatist. Confederation Poets and Charles Heavysege are 19th-century Canadian poets.

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Charles Mair

Charles Mair (September 21, 1838 – July 7, 1927) was a Canadian poet and journalist. Confederation Poets and Charles Mair are 19th-century Canadian poets.

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Charles Sangster

Charles Sangster (July 16, 1822 – December 9, 1893) was a Canadian poet. Confederation Poets and Charles Sangster are 19th-century Canadian poets.

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Classics

Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity.

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Confederation

A confederation (also known as a confederacy or league) is a political union of sovereign states or communities united for purposes of common action.

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Cosmopolitanism

Cosmopolitanism is the idea that all human beings are members of a single community.

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Department of National Defence (Canada)

The Department of National Defence (DND; Ministère de la Défense nationale) is the department of the Government of Canada which supports the Canadian Armed Forces in its role of defending Canadian national interests domestically and internationally.

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Dorothy Livesay

Dorothy Kathleen May Livesay, (October 12, 1909 – December 29, 1996) was a Canadian poet who twice won the Governor General's Award in the 1940s, and was "senior woman writer in Canada" during the 1970s and 1980s.

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Duncan Campbell Scott

Duncan Campbell Scott (August 2, 1862 – December 19, 1947) was a Canadian civil servant and poet and prose writer. Confederation Poets and Duncan Campbell Scott are 19th-century Canadian poets.

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E. Pauline Johnson

Emily Pauline Johnson (10 March 1861 – 7 March 1913), also known by her Mohawk stage name Tekahionwake (pronounced dageh-eeon-wageh), was a Canadian poet, author, and performer who was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Confederation Poets and e. Pauline Johnson are 19th-century Canadian poets.

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English poetry

This article focuses on poetry from the United Kingdom written in the English language.

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Ezra Pound

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II.

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F. R. Scott

Francis Reginald Scott (1899–1985), commonly known as Frank Scott or F. R.

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Francis Joseph Sherman

Francis Joseph Sherman (February 3, 1871 – June 15, 1926) was a Canadian poet. Confederation Poets and Francis Joseph Sherman are 19th-century Canadian poets.

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Frederick George Scott

Frederick George Scott (7 April 1861 – 19 January 1944) was for the first part of his life an Anglican priest and a Canadian poet to whom the Canadian literary establishment gave the epithet "Poet of the Laurentians." He was associated with Canada's Confederation Poets, and wrote 13 books of Christian and patriotic poetry, often using the natural world to convey deeper spiritual meaning. Confederation Poets and Frederick George Scott are 19th-century Canadian poets.

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Free verse

Free verse is an open form of poetry which does not use a prescribed or regular meter or rhyme and tends to follow the rhythm of natural or irregular speech.

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George Frederick Cameron

George Frederick Cameron (24 September 1854 – 17 September 1885) was a Canadian poet, lawyer, and journalist, best known for the libretto for the operetta Leo, the Royal Cadet. Confederation Poets and George Frederick Cameron are 19th-century Canadian poets.

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Goldwin Smith

Goldwin Smith (13 August 1823 – 7 June 1910) was a British-born academic and historian who was active in both Great Britain and North America.

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Group of Seven (artists)

The Group of Seven, once known as the Algonquin School, was a group of Canadian landscape painters from 1920 to 1933, with "a like vision".

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Imagism

Imagism was a movement in early-20th-century poetry that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language. Confederation Poets and Imagism are poetry movements.

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Isabella Valancy Crawford

Isabella Valancy Crawford (25 December 1846 – 12 February 1887) was an Irish-born Canadian writer and poet. Confederation Poets and Isabella Valancy Crawford are 19th-century Canadian poets.

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James Reaney

James Crerar Reaney, (September 1, 1926 – June 11, 2008) was a Canadian poet, playwright, librettist, and professor, "whose works transform small-town Ontario life into the realm of dream and symbol." Reaney won Canada's highest literary award, the Governor General's Award, three times and received the Governor General's Awards for Poetry or Drama for both his poetry and his drama.

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Literary magazine

A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense.

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Literary modernism

Modernist literature originated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and is characterised by a self-conscious separation from traditional ways of writing in both poetry and prose fiction writing.

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Malcolm Ross (literary critic)

Malcolm Mackenzie Ross, (January 2, 1911November 4, 2002) was a notable Canadian literary critic.

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Marjorie Pickthall

Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall (14 September 1883, in Gunnersbury, London – 22 April 1922, in Vancouver) was a Canadian writer who was born in England but lived in Canada from the time she was seven.

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Mermaid Tavern

The Mermaid Tavern was a tavern on Cheapside in London during the Elizabethan era, located east of St. Paul's Cathedral on the corner of Friday Street and Bread Street.

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Modernism

Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience.

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Modernist poetry in English

Modernist poetry in English started in the early years of the 20th century with the appearance of the Imagists.

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Montreal Group

The Montreal Group, sometimes referred to as the McGill Group or McGill Movement,Dean Irvine, "," Oxford Companion to Canadian History. Confederation Poets and Montreal Group are Canadian literary movements, Canadian poetry and poetry movements.

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Nationalism

Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state.

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Northrop Frye

Herman Northrop Frye (July 14, 1912 – January 23, 1991) was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century.

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Progressivism

Progressivism is a political philosophy and movement that seeks to advance the human condition through social reform – primarily based on purported advancements in social organization, science, and technology.

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Raymond Knister

John Raymond Knister (27 May 1899 – 29 August 1932) was a Canadian poet, novelist, story writer, columnist, and reviewer, "known primarily for his realistic narratives set in rural Canada...

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Romantic poetry

Romantic poetry is the poetry of the Romantic era, an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. Confederation Poets and Romantic poetry are Romantic poets.

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Songs of the Great Dominion

Songs of the Great Dominion was a pioneering anthology of Canadian poetry published in 1889.

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T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 18884 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright.

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The Globe (Toronto newspaper)

The Globe was a Canadian newspaper in Toronto, Ontario, founded in 1844 by George Brown as a Reform voice.

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Tom Thomson

Thomas John Thomson (August 5, 1877July 8, 1917) was a Canadian artist active in the early 20th century.

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Toronto

Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Victorian era

In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the reign of Queen Victoria, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.

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Victorian literature

Victorian literature is English literature during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901).

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W. W. E. Ross

William Wrighton Eustace Ross (June 14, 1894 – August 26, 1966) was a Canadian geophysicist and poet.

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Walter Raleigh

Sir Walter Raleigh (– 29 October 1618) was an English statesman, soldier, writer and explorer.

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William Douw Lighthall

William Douw Lighthall (December 27, 1857 – August 3, 1954), often referred to as W. D. Lighthall, was a Canadian lawyer, historian, novelist, poet and philosopher. Confederation Poets and William Douw Lighthall are 19th-century Canadian poets.

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William Wilfred Campbell

William Wilfred Campbell (1 June c. 1860 – 1 January 1918) was a Canadian poet. Confederation Poets and William Wilfred Campbell are 19th-century Canadian poets.

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See also

Canadian literary movements

Canadian poetry

History of literature in Canada

  • Confederation Poets

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederation_Poets

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