Roberts, Sir Charles G.D.
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▪ Canadian poet
in full Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
born , Jan. 10, 1860, Douglas, N.B.
died Nov. 26, 1943, Toronto
poet who was the first to express the new national feeling aroused by the Canadian confederation of 1867. His example and counsel inspired a whole nationalist school of late 19th-century poets, the
Confederation group. Also a prolific prose writer, Roberts wrote several volumes of animal short stories, a genre in which he became internationally famous.
After graduating from the University of New Brunswick (1879), Roberts taught school, edited the influential Toronto magazine The Week, and for ten years was a professor of English at King's College in Windsor, Nova Scotia. In 1897 he moved to New York City where he worked as a journalist, and in 1911 he established residence in London. Returning to Canada 14 years later, Roberts embarked on a cross-Canada lecture tour and later settled in Toronto as the acknowledged dean of Canadian letters. He was knighted in 1935.
Beginning with
Orion, and Other Poems (1880), in which he expressed traditional themes in traditional poetic language and form, Roberts published about 12 volumes of verse. He wrote of nature, love, and the evolving Canadian nation, but his best remembered poems are simple descriptive lyrics about the scenery and rural life of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Outstanding among his poetic works are
In Divers Tones (1886),
Songs of the Common Day (1893),
The Vagrant of Time (1927), and
The Iceberg, and Other Poems (1934).
Roberts's most famous prose works are short stories in which his intimate knowledge of the woods and their animal inhabitants is displayed—e.g.,
Earth's Enigmas (1896),
The Kindred of the Wild (1902),
Red Fox (1905), and
Neighbours Unknown (1910). His other prose includes a pioneer
History of Canada (1897) and several novels dealing with the Maritime Provinces.
Additional Reading
John Coldwell Adams, Sir Charles God Damn: The Life of Sir Charles G.D. Roberts (1986).
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