1. Archibald Lampman was born at Morpeth, Ontario, a village near Chatham, the son of Archibald Lampman, an Anglican clergyman.
19 Facts About Archibald Lampman
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In 1867 the family moved to Gore's Landing on Rice Lake, where young Archie Archibald Lampman attended at the Barron's School.
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Archibald Lampman attended Cobourg Collegiate, followed by Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario, and then Trinity College in Toronto, Ontario, graduating in 1882, with only second-class standing.
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Archibald Lampman was quiet and undemonstrative in manner, but had a fascinating personality.
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On Sep 3,1887, Archibald Lampman married 20-year-old Maude Emma Playter.
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Archibald Lampman became a close friend of Indian Affairs bureaucrat Duncan Campbell Scott; Scott introduced him to camping, and Lampman introduced Scott to writing poetry.
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Archibald Lampman died in Ottawa at the age of 37, due to his weakened heart.
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Archibald Lampman is buried, fittingly, at Beechwood Cemetery, in Ottawa, a site he wrote about in the poem "In Beechwood Cemetery".
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Archibald Lampman's grave is marked by a natural stone on which is carved only one word: Lampman.
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In May 1881, when Lampman was at Trinity College, someone lent him a copy of Charles G D Roberts's recently published first book, Orion and Other Poems.
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Archibald Lampman published mainly nature poetry in the current late-Romantic style.
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Acutely observant in his method, Archibald Lampman created out of the minutiae of nature careful compositions of color, sound, and subtle movement.
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In 1895 Archibald Lampman was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and his second collection of poems, Lyrics of Earth, was brought out by a Boston publisher.
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Archibald Lampman was an outspoken socialist, a feminist, and a social critic.
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Besides Alcyone, it included Among the Millet and Lyrics of Earth in their entirety, plus seventy-four sonnets Archibald Lampman had tried to publish separately, twenty-three miscellaneous poems and ballads, and two long narrative poems.
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Archibald Lampman was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1895.
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Archibald Lampman was designated a Person of National Historic Significance in 1920.
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Since 1999, the annual "Archibald Lampman Poetry Reading" has brought leading Canadian poets to Trinity College, Toronto, under the sponsorship of the John W Graham Library and the Friends of the Library, Trinity College.
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Archibald Lampman's name is carried on in the town of Lampman, Saskatchewan, a small community of approximately 730 people, situated near the City of Estevan.