William Wilfred Campbell

William Wilfred Campbell
Born	(1860-06-01)1 June 1860 Newmarket, Canada West
Died	1 January 1918(1918-01-01) (aged 57) Ottawa, Ontario
Resting place	Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa
Occupation	Civil Servant
Language	English
Genre	Poetry
Literary movement	Confederation Poets
Notable works	Lake Lyrics and Other Poems
Notable awards	FRSC
Spouse	Mary Louisa DeBelle (née Dibble)
Children	Margery, Faith, Basil, Dorothy
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William Wilfred Campbell (1 June c. 1860 – 1 January 1918) was a Canadian poet. He is often categorized as one of the country's Confederation Poets, a group that included Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, Archibald Lampman, and Duncan Campbell Scott; he was a colleague of Lampman and Scott. By the end of the 19th century, he was considered the "unofficial poet laureate of Canada."^[1] Although not as well known as the other Confederation poets today, Campbell was a "versatile, interesting writer" who was influenced by Robert Burns, the English Romantics, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Carlyle, and Alfred Tennyson. Inspired by these writers, Campbell expressed his own religious idealism in traditional forms and genres.^[2][3]