The Letters of Lampman to Lighthall (1888-1898)

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Title
The Letters of Lampman to Lighthall (1888-1898)
Abstract
A group of eighteen letters written between 1888 and 1898 by Archibald Lampman (1861-1899), one of Canada's "Confederation Poets", to William Douw Lighthall (1857-1954), a Montreal lawyer, municipal politican, historian, novelist, poet and philosopher. The authors point out that the correspondence between Lighthall and Lampman appears to have had its origins in the fact that Lighthall had been given the task of assembling a collection of representative poems of Canadian verse for an anthology being planned by the British man of letters, William Sharp, for his "Canterbury Poets Series". The anthology was published in 1889 under the title Songs of the Great Dominion, and republished in 1893 under the title Canadian Songs and Poems. Once Lampman's verse for the anthology was settled upon, the remaining letters between the two settled into a friendly but sporadic and distant exchange of correspondence. The authors provide a biography of Lighthall.
Publication
Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Review
Volume
Vol. 23
Pages
62-80
Date
Fall/Winter 1988
Language
en
URL
Citation
Gnarowski, Michael, and Helen Lynn. “The Letters of Lampman to Lighthall (1888-1898).” Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Review Vol. 23 (Fall/Winter 1988): 62–80. http://www.canadianpoetry.ca/cpjrn/vol23/gnarowski_lynn.htm.
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