ENGL 3670 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Marjorie Pickthall, Canadian Poetry, Campbell Scott

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 3670
• Professor: Jade Ferguson

Document Summary

Canadian poetry at the turn of the 20th century. The finest of canada"s late 19th century poets in english . Doctor, astronomer, editor, poet, and psychical researcher. Once thought to be one of the greatest canadian poets of her generation, now her works go mostly unread. Wasn"t a modernist, wanted and wrote romanticized works with great hero"s and archetypes. Wrote very stereotypical works, not realistic scenarios, works regarded as somewhat empty. Would travel to schools and high schools to speak and perform his works? .