Roberts, Sir Charles George Douglas

  • From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: See full biography at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_G._D._Roberts
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    • Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts KCMG FRSC (January 10, 1860 – November 26, 1943) was a Canadian poet and prose writer.  He was one of the first Canadian authors to be internationally known. He published various works on Canadian exploration and natural history, verse, travel books, and fiction.”He continued to be a well-known “man of letters” until his death.
    • Besides his own body of work, Roberts has also been called the “Father of Canadian Poetry” because he served as an inspiration and a source of assistance for other Canadian poets of his time.
    • Roberts, his cousin Bliss Carman, Archibald Lampman and Duncan Campbell Scott are known as the Confederation Poets.He also inspired a whole nationalist school of late 19th-century poets.
    • Roberts was born in Douglas, New Brunswick, in 1860, the eldest child of Emma Wetmore Bliss and Rev. George Goodridge Roberts (an Anglican priest). Roberts worked as principal of Chatham High School in Chatham, New Brunswick, from 1879 to 1881, and of York Street School in Fredericton from 1881 to 1883. In Chatham he met and befriended Edmund Collins, editor of the Chatham Starand the future biographer of Sir John A. Macdonald.
    • Roberts first published poetry in the Canadian Illustrated News of March 30, 1878, and by 1879 he had placed two poems in the American magazine, Scribner’s.
    • In 1880, Roberts published his first book of poetry, Orion and Other Poems. Thanks in part to his industry in sending out complimentary review copies, there were many positive reviews, including praise from Rose-Belford’s Canadian Monthly and several American periodicals, including the New York Independent, which called it ‘a little book of choice things, with the indifferent things well weeded out.'”
    • In 1885, Roberts became a professor at the University of King’s College in Windsor, Nova Scotia. In 1886, his second book, In Divers Tones, was published by a Boston publisher. “Most critics rank “The Iceberg” (265 lines), the title poem of the new collection” published in 1934, “as one of Roberts’ outstanding achievements. It is almost as ambitious as ‘Ave!’ in conception; its cold, unemotional images are as apt and precise in their detached way as the warmly-remembered descriptions in ‘Tantramar Revisited”.
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