Charles G. D. Roberts
Canadian poet
Died when: 83 years 320 days (1006 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts KCMG FRSC (January 10, 1860 – November 26, 1943) was a Canadian poet and prose writer.He was one of the first Canadian authors to be internationally known.
He published various works on Canadian exploration and natural history, verse, travel books, and fiction."He continued to be a well-known "man of letters" until his death.
Besides his own body of work, Roberts has also been called the "Father of Canadian Poetry" because he served as an inspiration and a source of assistance for other Canadian poets of his time.
Roberts, his cousin Bliss Carman, Archibald Lampman and Duncan Campbell Scott are known as the Confederation Poets.He also inspired a whole nationalist school of late 19th-century poets.
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