Wilfred Campbell

William Wilfred Campbell (1 June 1858 – 1 January 1918) was a Canadian poet.

Born in Newmarket, Canada West (not Berlin, present-day Kitchener, Ontario as is often recorded), the son of a clergyman, Campbell attended high school in Owen Sound. He then taught in Wiarton before enrolling the University of Toronto's University College, Wycliffe College and at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

In 1884, Campbell married Mary Dibble and was ordained to the Episcopal priesthood the following year. He returned to Canada in 1888. After suffering a crisis of faith, he resigned from the ministry and took a civil service position in Ottawa in 1891. In 1909, he was transferred to the Dominion Archives. He had four children, Margery, Faith, Basil and Dorothy.

Campbell counted among his friends the poets Archibald Lampman and William Henry Drummond.

In 1915 he moved with his family to an old stone farmhouse on the outskirts of Ottawa, which he named "Kilmorie". He died of pneumonia on New Years morning, 1918, and is buried in the Beechwood Cemetery.

elected bibliography

* "Snowflakes and Sunbeams" - 1888
* "Indian Summer" - 1888
* "Lake Lyrics and Other Poems" - 1889
* "The Dread Voyage: Poems" - 1893
* "Beyond the Hills of Dream" - 1899
* "The Poems of Wilfred Campbell" - 1905
* "The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse - 1913 (editor)
* "Poems of Loyalty by British and Canadian Authors" - 1913 (editor)
* "Sagas of Vaster Britain" - 1914
* "Selected Poems" - 1976
* "Vapour and Blue" - 1978 (edited by Raymond Souster)
* "William Wilfred Campbell: Selected Poetry and Essays" - 1987

References

* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=7268 Biography at "the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]
* [http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/49.html Representative Poetry Online - William Wilfred Campbell (1858?-1918)]
* [http://www.canadianpoetry.ca/confederation/wwcampbell/intimate_picture/ch_1.htm An Intimate Picture of Wilfred Campbell by Faith L. Malloch At Canadian Poetry]

External links

* [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0001208 Wilfred Campbell's] entry in [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=HomePage&Params=A1 The Canadian Encyclopedia]