Lampman, Archibald

Lampman, Archibald

▪ Canadian poet
born Nov. 17, 1861, Morpeth, Ont.
died Feb. 10, 1899, Ottawa
 Canadian poet of the Confederation group, whose most characteristic work sensitively records the feelings evoked by scenes and incidents of northern landscapes and seasons.

      Educated at Trinity College in the University of Toronto, he lived in Ottawa, employed in the post office department of the Canadian civil service, from 1883 until his death. He collaborated with the poets Duncan Campbell Scott (Scott, Duncan Campbell) and Wilfred Campbell in the writing of a weekly column, “At the Mermaid Inn,” in the Toronto Globe (1892–93).

      Lampman was repelled by the mechanization of urban life and escaped to the countryside whenever possible. After being influenced by the craftsmanship and perfection of form of Classical poetry and by the lyrical verse of such English poets as William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson, he wrote nature poems celebrating the beauties of Ottawa and its environs and the Gatineau countryside of Quebec. Some of Lampman's later poems and essays reflect his socialist beliefs and criticize social injustice and organized religion.

      During his lifetime Lampman published two volumes of verse, Among the Millet and Other Poems (1888) and Lyrics of Earth (1893). After his death, Scott, his friend and literary executor, edited The Poems of Archibald Lampman (1900) and Lyrics of Earth: Poems and Ballads (1925). At the Long Sault, and Other New Poems was published in 1943.

Additional Reading
L.R. Early, Archibald Lampman (1986); Lorraine McMullen (ed.), The Lampman Symposium (1976).

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