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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Archibald Lampman (1861–1899)

Lampman, Archibald. A Canadian poet; born at Morpeth, Canada, Nov. 17, 1861; died at Ottawa, Feb. 10, 1899. He was a graduate of Trinity College, Toronto (1882), and after 1883 held an appointment in the Post Office Department at Ottawa. A constant contributor of verse to the papers and magazines of the Dominion and the United States, he published three collections of poems: ‘Among the Millet’ (1888), and ‘Lyrics of Earth’ (1895), which reveal a deep love of nature and outdoor life, and ‘Alcyone’ (1899). (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).