William Wilfred Campbell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

William Wilfred Campbell

Canadian poet

Date of Birth: 15-Jun-1860

Place of Birth: Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1918

Profession: writer, poet, author

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

William Wilfred Campbell (1 June ca.
1860 – 1 January 1918) was a Canadian poet.
He is often classed as one of the country's Confederation Poets, a group that included fellow Canadians 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." 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.