"WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD (1880-1967)", Haldimand
N 42° 49.618 W 079° 58.501
17T E 583779 N 4742109
Located along Regional Road 3 at the corner of Cheapside, near the shore of Lake Erie.
Waymark Code: WM2J7K
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 11/10/2007
Views: 33
The following text can be found at The Canadian Enclopedia
MacDonald, Wilson Pugsley, poet, poetaster, performer (b at Cheapside, Ont 5 May 1880; d at Toronto 8 Apr 1967). MacDonald was a barnstorming versifier with unbending faith in his own greatness. He graduated in 1902 from McMaster, and his first collection of poems, Song of the Prairie Land, appeared in 1916. Many others, which he himself hawked at his "recitals," followed at intervals. Best known are The Miracle Songs of Jesus (1921) and A Flagon of Beauty (1931). It is surprising the extent to which MacDonald was often taken seriously as an artist and equally surprising that genuine poems or hints of them can sometimes be discovered in his collections by those willing to wade through his vapid romanticism and pre-modernist conventions. Some satirical light verse may also stand re-examination.
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