Sir Charles G.D. Roberts - Fredericton, New Brunswick
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This plaque honours three famous poets who attended the University of New Brunswick and acquired fame during their lifetime. Sir Charles Roberts is one among them. The plaque is located at the entrance gate to the University of New Brunswick.
Waymark Code: WM16C3Z
Location: New Brunswick, Canada
Date Posted: 06/27/2022
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Inscription on the plaque:
Bliss Carman 1861-1929 Sir Charles Roberts 1860-1943 Francis Joseph Sherman 1871-1926 Born in or near Fredericton, these three poets were educated in this University and are buried in the cemetery of Forest Hill. Their gifts of verse enriched Canadian literature and gained for their common birthplace the designation "The Poets' Corner of Canada."
"Sir Charles G.D. Roberts, 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.
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