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Émile Nelligan is one of the most celebrated and admired of Canada’s nineteenth-century poets.  He had only a brief career as a young poet, but produced some remarkable poems.

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  • O'Hagan, Thomas. The Collected Poems of Thomas O'Hagan. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1922. PS8479 .H34 A17 1922 Robarts
  • --. In Dreamland, and Other Poems. Toronto: Williamson, 1893. Internet Archive
  • --. A Gate of Flowers and Other Poems. Toronto: William Briggs, 1887. Internet Archive
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  • Barcroft Capel Boake notes and Barcroft Henry Thomas Boake letters (State Library of New South Wales); Boake manuscript (National Library of Australia).
  • Boake, Barcroft Henry Thomas. Where the Dead Men Lie and Other Poems. Ed. A.G. Stephens. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1897.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born on 29 May, 1874 at 32 Sheffield Terrace, Campden Hill, London. He was the elder son of Edward Chesterton (an estate agent) and Marie Louise (née Grosjean). As Chesterton would later emphasize in his Autobiography (1936), he had a comfortable upbringing in a middle-class family and a generally happy childhood.

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Charles was born on 24 November 1394, the first surviving son of Louis d'Orléans and Valentina Visconti of Milan. The Duchess Valentina was banished from court in 1396 and as a result, Charles and his siblings were brought up in their father's multiple châteaux along the Loire.

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Rose Amy Fyleman was born on the outskirts of Nottingam on 6 March, 1877 to Emilie (née Loewenstein) and John Feilman. Her mother had immigrated from Russia, while her father's family was situated in Germany seventeen years prior to Rose's birth.

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  • Middleton, Jesse Edgar. Sea Dogs and Men at Arms: A Canadian Book of Songs. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1918. D526.2 .M45 1918 E. J. Pratt Library at Victoria College
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Books

  • A Strange Relief. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2001. ISBN 0771045832

Anthologies

  • Red Silk: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women Poets. Mansfield Press, 2004.
  • Open Field: An Anthology of 40 Contemporary Canadian Poets. Persea Books, NY, 2005.