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<p>A new era in Canadian poetry began in 1880 with the publication of Charles G.D. Roberts&rsquo; <em>Orion and Other Poems</em>. He was just twenty years old. Roberts was soon acknowledged as leader of the so-called Confederation Poets&mdash;Bliss Carman, Duncan Campbell Scott, and Archibald Lampman. During his long lifetime he wrote hundreds of poems as well as novels, histories, short stories, translations, and essays; he also originated the realistic animal story popularized by Ernest Thompson Seton. He awed literary critics with the versatility of his writing and shocked staid Canadians with the escapades of an unconventional private life.</p><p> Married at twenty in his native New Brunswick, Roberts soon after began a series of romantic entanglements. While his wife, May, raised the children in Fredericton, he swanned around New York, Havana, and the capitals of Europe. He experienced the Bohemian life of Washington Square around the turn of the century and lived in Montparnasse long before it became famous as an expatriate haven. In 1907 he sailed off to Europe and stayed for eighteen years. When he finally returned aboard the Berengaria in 1925 for a reading tour, he was li

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Author

Adams, John Coldwell

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Published

1986

Language

EN

ISBN

9781442632943

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Criticism, Poetry