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A Bibliography of Canadian Poetry REF. Victoria University Library PUBLICATION No. J. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF Canadian Poetry (ENGLISH) BY C. C. JAMES. PRINTED FOR THE LIBRARY BY WILLIAM BRIGQS, TORONTO 1899. &m VICTORIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY PUBLICATION NO. I. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CANADIAN POETRY (ENGLISH) BY C. C. JAMES. PRINTED FOR THE LIBRARY BY WILLIAM BRIGGS, TORONTO 1899. k 2 /377 c4,3 Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, by Charles Cannipf Jambs, at the Department of Agriculture. This Bibliography of Canadian Poetry is based on a collection of about four hundred volumes and pamphlets brought together by the author during the past ten years, now in the Library of Victoria University, The other principal sources of information have been the Toronto Public Library, the Library of the Ontario Legislature, the Library of the Ontario Department of Education, and the Library of the Dominion Parliament, Ottawa. It has been restricted to publications in English. The author will be pleased to be informed of any olnissions or errors, and also to receive additional personal notes of any authors mentioned. He is indebted to Mr. A. E. Lang, B.A., for much valuable assistance in the preparation of this volume. C. C. JAMES. Toronto, August 1st, 1899. LIBRARY COMMITTEE OF VICTORIA UNIVERSITY. J. F. McLaughlin, M.A., B.D. {Librarian). L. E. Horning, Ph.D. J. C. Robertson, B.A. A. E. Lang, B.A. C. C. James, M.A. A. L. Langford, M.A. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CANADIAN POETRY Note. —The references to Morgan in this volume are to " Canadian Men and 'Women of the Time," by Henry J. Morgan. Published by William Briggs, Toronto, 1898. Adams, Mary Electa llorn in the St. Francis Valley. Teacher at Cobourg, Picton, Sackville, N.B., Dundas, Wesleyan Ladies' College, Hamilton ; Principal of Brook- hurst Academy, Cobourg, and Lady Principal of Ontario Ladies' College, Whitby. Died at Toronto, November 5th, 1898. From Distant Shores. A collection of nine poems, published at Toronto in 1898, after her death, for circulation among her many friends. Illustrated. Alden, Margaret H. Of Saginaw, E. S., Mich., daughter of William Thomson, and sister of E. W. Thomson, both well-known writers. Born in Simcoe County, Ont. Author of two small collections of Christinas poems. Alexander, Armstrong J. Songs of the New World. Toronto, 1896, pp. 74. Alexander, James Lynne According to Dr. Scadding he was a teacher in the York Grammar School, and afterwards Incumbent of Saltfleet and Binbrook, Ont. (See Gagnon's *' Essai de Bibliographic Canadienne," p. 525.) Wonders of the West ; or, A Day at the Niagara Falls in 1825 : A Poem. By a Canadian. (York), 1825, pp. 46. Note. —This is one of the earliest books of poetry published in Ontario. There was printed at The Herald office, Kingston, in 1822, a 13-page pamphlet, entitled "An Address to the Liege men of every British Colony and Province in the World, by a Friend to his Species." It was in rhyme, .and published anonymously. (See Gagnon, pp. 18, 19.) ) 6 A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CANADIAN POETRY. Allan, Lieut. Adam Bom 1757, in Dumfries, Scotland. Served in Simcoe's Queen's Rangers ; Lieutenant of the King's N. B. Regiment. Died at Poquiock, York County, N.B., in 1823. (See Morgan's '• Bibliotheca Canadensis," also " New Brunswick Historical Society Collection," Vol. L, 1894, pp. 36, 37.) The New Gentle Shepherd. A pastoral comedy originally written in the Scotch dialect by Allan Ramsay. Reduced to English by Lieut. Adam Allan, to which is annexed a description of the Great Falls of the River St. John, in the Province of New Brunswick. London, Eng., 1798. Allan, Peter John Born at York, Eng., in 1825. " Third son of Dr. Colin Allan, a surgeon in the army who held the appointment of Principal Medical Officer in Halifax, N. S., which place he quitted on retiring from the service in 1836, and passed the remaining years of his life at Fredericton." Died in 1848. The Poetical Remains of Peter John Allan, Esq., late of Fredericton, New Brunswick, with a short biographical notice (by his brother, J. McGregor Allan, Aberdeen). Edited by the Rev. Henry Christmas, M.A., F.R.S., etc. London, Eng., 1853, pp. 171. Allen, Grant Son of Rev. J. A. Allen (see below). Born at Kingston, Ont., February 24th, 1848. Educated at Oxford, Eng. Graduated in 1871. Now resident in England. Author of many npvels and works on evolution in nature. (See Morgan, The Lower Slopes. Reminiscences of excursions round the base of Helicon, undertaken for the most part in early manhood. London and Chicago, 1894, pp. 79. Dedicated to Edward Clodd. Allen, Rev. Joseph Antisell Bom in Ireland, 1814. Came to Canada, 1842. Ordained by Bishop Mountain. Married a daughter of C. W. Grant, 4th Baron de Longueuil. Still living at Kingston, Ont. (See Morgan.) Day-Dreams by a Butterfly. Kingston, C.W., 1854, pp. 156. Published anonymously. The Lambda-Nu Tercentenary Poem on Shakespeare. Strat- ford-upon-Avon, 1864, pp. 46. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CANADIAN POETRY. 7 Allen, Rev. Joseph Antisell— Continued. The Church of the Pope, and Primitive Christianity. King- ston, Ont. (1891), pp. 104. The True and Romantic Love-Story of Colonel and Mrs. Hutchinson. A drama in verse. London, Eng., n.d., pp. 88. Allen, Jacob D. A Book of Poetry. London, Ont,, 1869, pp. 240. The Musings of Uncle Jake. London, 1866, pp. 208. Allen, Rev. John S. Methodist minister, of New Brunswick. From Appollyonville to the Holy City. Halifax, 1880, pp. 302. Almon, Sophie M. Daughter of Rev. Henry Pryor Almon, of Nova Scotia, and granddaughter of Hon. M. B. Almon, of Halifax, N.S. Married Mr. H. A. Hensley, of New York, in 1889. Poems. For private circulation. Halifax, N.S., 1889, pp. 16. A Woman's Love-Letters. By Sophie M. Almon - Hensley. New York, 1895, pp. 82. Anderson, Rev. Duncan, M.A, Of Quebec. Born 1828, in Rayne, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Came to Canada in 1854, and located at Levis, Que. Lays of Canada, and Other Poems. Montreal, 1890, pp. 116. Anderson, James Now living in Scotland. Sawney's Letters and Cariboo Rhymes. Toronto, 1895, pp. 49. This is a reprint of songs and poems that were popular in the gold diggings of Cariboo, B.C., many years ago. Appleton, Lydia Ann. Of Whitechurch, Ont. > Miscellaneous Poems, Moral and Religious, written on various occasions. Toronto, 1850, pp. 92. Archibald, A. K. Of Colchester, N.S. Poems. Boston, 1848, pp. 200. 8 A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CANADIAN POETRY. Ascher, Isidore G. Born at Glasgow, Scotland, 1835. Came to Canada, 1843. Educated in Montreal ; graduated at McGill in law ; called to the Bar in 1862. Went to London, Eng., in 1864, where he now resides. (See Morgan.) Voices from thk Hearth : A Collection of Verses by "Isidore." Isidore G. Ascher, B.C.L., Advocate, Montreal. Montreal and New York, 1863, pp. 168. Awde, Robert Of Toronto. Of English birth. Jubilee, Patriotic, and Other Poems. Toronto, 1887, pp. 50. B-. p. J. Pencillings by the Way, during a vacation visit in Chebucto. By a student who is a native of Halifax. Montreal, 1868, pp. 24. Baker, Henry Of Owen Sound, Ont. Translations and Choice Pieces From Some of the Best French and German Authors. Montreal, 1867, pp. 286. Baldwyn. Augusta Daughter of Rev. — Baldwyn, Rector of St. John's, Que. Poems. Montreal, 1859, pp. 163. Bannatyne, William Poems and Songs. Toronto, 1875, pp. iv. 198. Barr, James ("Angus Evan Abbott") Of London, Eng. Son of Robert and Jane Barr, still living at Windsor, Ont. He was born at Wallacetown, Ont., in 1862. Journalist on Windsor ' " Becord and Detroit Free Press. Editor of ' American Humorous Verse in the Canterbury Series of Poets. His brother, Robert Barr, is the well- known novelist and short-stor}'^ writer. His sister, Miss Jean Barr, is also an author. Robert Barr was born in Glasgow in 1850, and came to Canada in 1857. (See Morgan.) • Baylis, Samuel Mathewson Of Montreal. Camp and Lamp : Rambles in Realms of Sport, Story and Song. Montreal, 1897, pp. 316. Edition limited to 500 copies, numbered. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CANADIAN POETRY. 9 Beck, George Fairley Daybreak : A Poem. Toronto, 1873, pp. 13. Bell, John Allison Chebucto, AND Other Poems. Halifax, N.S., 1890. For private circulation. Bengough, John Wilson Journalist, caricaturist, lecturer, political economist, and poet, of Toronto. Born at Toronto, April 5th, 1851. Founder and editor of Orip, 1873 to 1892. (See Morgan.) Motley : Verses Grave and Gay. Toronto, 1895, pp. 172. Bentley, E., Sr. Epistlks and Poems. Toronto, 1896, pp. 31. Betts, Craven Langstroth Born at St. John, N.B., April 23rd, 1853. Now journalist in New York. (See Morgan.) Translations of Beranger. New York, 1888. The Perfume-Holder : A Persian Love-Poem. New York, 1891. Bigney, Mark F. Born at Pug wash, N.S. Removed to New Orleans, U.S., in 1848. Journalist. The Forest Pilgrims, and Other Poems. New Orleans, 1867, pp. 258. Blackadder, Edward Of Wolfville, Kings County, N.S. Fancies of Boyhood. A series of poems, original and translated. Halifax, N.S., 1890, pp. 73. Poems : Sonnets, Lyrics, and Miscellaneous. Halifax, N.S.> 1895, pp. 34. Blair, John, Jr. Born in Lincoln County, Ont. Now living at Jordan, Ont. Poems Serious, Sentimental, Patriotic and Humorous. St. Catharines, Ont., 1875, pp. 132. Blenerhasset, Mrs. The Widow of the Rock, and Other Poems. By a lady. Anonymous. Montreal, 1824, pp. 192. 10 A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CANADIAN POETRY. Blewett, Mrs. Jean Born, of Scottish parentage, in Kent County, Ont., on November 4th, 1864. Maiden name, McKishnie. Now resident at Blenheim, Ont.
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