67 - The 'Confederation Poets'

Nov 20, 2022

In which we offer up a full-on literary episode to discuss the four poets collectively known as "The Confederation Poets". Why are they important? What does it tell us about the Canadian literary canon? What is the canon even?

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Further Reading/Sources:

• Bentley, D.M.R., The Confederation Group of Canadian Poets, 1880-1897, University of Toronto Press, 2004.
• Carman, Bliss. “Low Tide on Grand Pré,” Low Tide on Grand Pré: A Book of Lyrics, New York: C. L. Webster, 1893.
• Lampman, Archibald. “The City at the End of Things,” The Poems of Archibald Lampman (ed. Duncan Campbell Scott), George N. Morang, 1900.
• Pacey, Desmond. Creative Writing in Canada, The Ryerson Press, 1952.
• Roberts, Charles G.D. “The Tantramar Revisited,” (1883) Selected Poems of Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Ryerson, 1936.
• Scott, Duncan Campbell. “The Onondaga Madonna,” Poems, McClelland and Stewart, 1926.
• Woodcock, George (editor). Colony and Confederation: Early Canadian Poets and Their Background, UBC Press, 1974.