William Wilfred Campbell
William Wilfred Campbell (1 June c. 1860 – 1 January 1918) was a
Canadian poet. He is often categorized as one of the country's
Confederation Poets, a group that included
Charles G.D. Roberts,
Bliss Carman,
Archibald Lampman, and
Duncan Campbell Scott; he was a colleague of Lampman and Scott. By the end of the 19th century, he was considered the "unofficial
poet laureate of
Canada." Although not as well known as the other Confederation poets today, Campbell was a "versatile, interesting writer" who was influenced by
Robert Burns, the
English Romantics,
Edgar Allan Poe,
Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
Thomas Carlyle, and
Alfred Tennyson. Inspired by these writers, Campbell expressed his own
religious idealism in traditional
forms and
genres.
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