Clerk

• Warr, Bertram. The Collected Poems of Bertram Warr: Acknowledgment to Life. Ed. Leo Gasparini. Pref. by Earle Birney. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1970.
• --. Yet a Little Onwards. London: Favil Press, 1941.

• Gervais, David. “Masefield, John Edward (1878–1967).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Jan. 2008. 11 Aug. 2009 .

• Masefield, John. Salt-Water Ballads. London: G. Richards, 1902; New York, NY: Macmillan, 1913. PR6025 .A77 S36 Robarts Library.
• --. Ballads. London: E. Mathews, 1903; revised edition published as Ballads and Poems, 1910. end .M383 B346 1903 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
• --. The Everlasting Mercy. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1911. PR6025 .A77 E7 Robarts Library.
• --. The Story of a Round-House. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1912; revised edition, 1913. PR6025 .A77 S7 1913 University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview.
• --. The Widow in the Bye Street. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1912. PR6025 .A77 W5 1912 Robarts Library.
• --. The Daffodil Fields. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1913; London: Heinemann, 1913. PR6025 .A77 D3 Robarts Library.
• --. Dauber: A Poem. London: Heinemann, 1913. PR6025 .A77 D35. Robarts Library.
• --. Philip the King, and Other Poems . New York, NY: Macmillan, 1914. PR .M377p E. J. Pratt Library at Victoria University.
• --. Good Friday: A Dramatic Poem. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1915; published with additional poems as Good Friday, and Other Poems, 1916. PR .M377g E. J. Pratt Library at Victoria University.
• --. Sonnets (from Good Friday, and Other Poems). New York, NY: Macmillan, 1916. end .M383 S66 1916 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
• --. Sonnets and Poems (from Good Friday, and Other Poems). Letchworth, England: Garden City Press, 1916. PR6025 .A77 S66 Robarts Library.
• --. Salt-Water Poems and Ballads. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1916; published as Salt-Water Ballads and Poems, 1923. PR6025 .A77 S36 1944 Robarts Library.
• --. Lollingdon Downs, and Other Poems. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1917. PR6025 .A77 L4 1917 SMC John M. Kelly Library at St. Michael's College.
• --. The Cold Cotswolds. Cambridge, England: Express Printing Works, end .M383 C635 1917a Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
• --. Rosas. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1918. end .M383 P675 1918 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
• --. Reynard the Fox. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1919; new edition, 1920. PR6025 .A77 R4 1920 SMC John M. Kelly Library at St. Michael's College.
• --. Enslaved. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1920; published with additional poems as Enslaved, and Other Poems, 1923. PR6025 .A77 E5 John W Graham Library at Trinity College.
• --. Right Royal. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1920. PR6025 .A77 R5 John W Graham Library at Trinity College.
• --. Animula. London: Chiswick Press, 1920.
• --. King Cole. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1921. PR6025 .A77 K5 Robarts Library.
• --. The Dream. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1922; published with additional poems as The Dream, and Other Poems, 1923. end .M383 D74 1922a Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
• --. Sonnets of Good Cheer to the Lena Ashwell Players, From Their Well-Wisher, John Masefield. Mendip Press, 1926.
• --. Midsummer Night, and Other Tales in Verse. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1928. PR6025 .A77 M5 Robarts Library.
• --. South and East. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1929; London : Medici Society, 1929. end .M383 S69 1929 Thoams Fisher Rare Book Library.
• --. The Wanderer of Liverpool. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1930. PR6025 .A77 W2 John M. Kelly Library at St. Michael's College.
• --. Minnie Maylow's Story, and Other Tales and Scenes. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1931. PR6025 .A77 M65 John M. Kelly Library at St. Michael's College.
• --. A Tale of Troy. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1932; London: Heinemann, 1932. PR6025 .A77 T35 Robarts Library.
• --. A Letter from Pontus, and Other Verse. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1936. end .M383 L485 1936b Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
• --. Lines on the Tercentenary of Harvard University. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1937. end .M383 L554 1937 Robarts Library.
• --. The Country Scene in Poems. London: Collins, 1937; New York, NY: Collins, 1938. PR6025 .A77 C8 1937 SMR John M. Kelly Library at St. Michael's College.
• --. Tribute to Ballet in Poems. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1938; London: Collins, 1938. end .M383 T754 1938a ovs Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
• --. Some Verses to Some Germans. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1939. PR6025 .A77 S55 1939 E. J. Pratt Library at Victoria University.
• --. Shopping in Oxford. London: Heinemann, 1941. end .M383 S56 1941 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
• --. Gautama the Enlightened, and Other Verse. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1941. PR6025 .A77 G3 1941 E. J. Pratt Library at Victoria University.
• --. Natalie Maisie and Pavilastukay. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1942. PR6025 .A77 N3 John M. Kelly Library at St. Michael's College.
• --. Generation Risen. London: Collins, 1942; New York, NY: Macmillan, 1943. PR6025 .A77 G4 1943 University of Toronto Libraries at Downsview.
• --. Land Workers. London: Heinemann, 1942; New York, NY: Macmillan, 1943. end .M383 L35 1942 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
• --. Wonderings. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1943. end .M383 W654 1943b Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
• --. On the Hill. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1949. end .M383 O544 1949a Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
• --. The Bluebells, and Other Verses. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1961. end .M383 B58 1961 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
• --. Old Raiger, and Other Verse. London: Heinemann, 1964; New York, NY: Macmillan, 1965. eli .M383 O436 1964 Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
• --. In Glad Thanksgiving. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1967. end .M383 I536 1967b Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.

For more poems, see the Academy of America Poets

and The Poetry Foundation

• Apparitions Are Not Singular Occurrences
• Belly Dancer
• Blue Monday
• Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch
• Inside Out
• Picture of a Girl Drawn in Black and White
• Smudging
• Tearing Up My Mother's Letters
• Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons
• The Father of My Country
• The Hitchhikers
• The Photos
• The Ring
• The Story of Richard Maxfield
• Uneasy Rider

   

  • • Harris, Mark. "Diane Wakoski". Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 5: American Poets Since World War II, First Series. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Donald J. Greiner, University of South Carolina. The Gale Group, 1980. pp. 355-366.
    • Wakoski, Diane. Coins and Coffins. New York, NY: Hawk's Well Press, 1962.
    • --. Dream Sheet. New York, NY: Software Press, 1965.
    • --. Discrepancies and Apparitions. New York, NY: Doubleday, 1966.
    • --. The George Washington Poems. New York, NY: Riverrun Press, 1967.
    • --. The Diamond Merchant. Cambridge, MA: Sans Souci Press, 1968.
    • --. Inside the Blood Factory. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968.
    • --. Greed. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, Parts 1 and 2, 1968, Parts 3 and 4, 1969, Parts 5, 6, 7, 1971, Parts 8, 9, 11, 1973.
    • --. The Lament of the Lady Bank Dick. Cambridge, MA: Sans Souci Press, 1969.
    • --. The Moon Has a Complicated Geography. Palo Alto, CA: Odda Tala Press, 1969.
    • --. Poems. Key Printing Co., 1969.
    • --. Some Black Poems for the Buddha's Birthday. Pierripont Press, 1969.
    • --. Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons. Mount Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1969.
    • --. Love, You Big Fat Snail. San Francisco, CA: Tenth Muse, 1970.
    • --. Black Dream Ditty for Billy "the Kid" M Seen in Dr. Generosity's Bar Recruiting for Hell's Angels and Black Mafia. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1970.
    • --. The Wise Men Drawn to Kneel in Wonder at the Fact So of Itself. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1970.
    • --. The Magellanic Clouds. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1970.
    • --. On Barbara's Shore. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1971.
    • --. The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1971.
    • --. This Water Baby: For Tony. Santa Barbara, CA: Unicorn Press, 1971.
    • --. Exorcism. Boston, MA: My Dukes, 1971.
    • --. The Purple Finch Song. Mount Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1972.
    • --. Sometimes a Poet Will Hijack the Moon. Providence, RI: Burning Deck, 1972.
    • --. Smudging. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1972.
    • --. The Pumpkin Pie: or, Reassurances Are Always False, Tho We Love Them, Only Physics Counts. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1972.
    • --. Winter Sequences. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1973.
    • --. Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1973.
    • --. Stilllife: Michael, Silver Flute, and Violets. Storrs, CT: University of Connecticut Library, 1973.
    • --. The Owl and the Snake: A Fable. Mount Horeb, WI: Perishable Press , 1973.
    • --. The Wandering Tatler. Mount Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1974.
    • --. Trilogy. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974.
    • --. Looking for the King of Spain. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1974.
    • --. Abalone. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1974.
    • --. Virtuoso Literature for Two and Four Hands. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975.
    • --. The Fable of the Lion and the Scorpion. Milwaukee, WI: Pentagram Press, 1975.
    • --. The Laguna Contract of Diane Wakoski. Madison, WI: Crepuscular Press, 1976.
    • --. George Washington's Camp Cups. Madison, WI: Red Ozier Press, 1976.
    • --. Waiting for the King of Spain. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1976.
    • --. The Last Poem. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1976.
    • --. The Ring. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1977.
    • --. Spending Christmas with the Man from Receiving at Sears. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1977.
    • --. Overnight Projects with Wood. Madison, WI: Red Ozier Press, 1977.
    • --. Pachelbel's Canon. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1977.
    • --. The Man Who Shook Hands. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978.
    • --. Trophies. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1979.
    • --. Cap of Darkness. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1980.
    • --. Saturn's Rings. New York, NY: Targ Editions, 1982.
    • --. Divers. Barbarian Press, 1982.
    • --. The Lady Who Drove Me to the Airport. Worcester, MA: Metacom Press, 1982.
    • --. The Magician's Feastletters. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1982.
    • --. The Collected Greed, Parts 1-13. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1984.
    • --. The Managed World. New York, NY: Red Ozier Press, 1985.
    • --. Why My Mother Likes Liberace: A Musical Selection. Tucson, AZ: SUN/Gemini Press, 1985.
    • --. Celebration of the Rose: For Norman on Christmas Day. Montclair, NJ: Caliban Press, 1987.
    • --. Roses. Montclair, NJ: Caliban Press, 1987.
    • --. Husks of Wheat. Northridge, CA: California State University, Northridge Library, 1987.
    • --. Emerald Ice: Selected Poems 1962-1987. Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1988.
    • --. Medea the Sorceress ("Archaeology of Movies and Books" series). Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1991.
    • --. Jason the Sailor ("Archaeology of Movies and Books" series). Black Sparrow Press. Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1993.
    • --. The Emerald City of Las Vegas ("Archaeology of Movies and Books" series). Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1995.
    • --. Argonaut Rose ("Archaeology of Movies and Books" series). Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1998.
    • --. The Butcher's Apron: New and Selected Poems. Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 2000.

• Ridler, Ann Margaret. "Thomson, James (1834–1882)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Oxford: OUP, 2004.

A standard edition is The Works of Edmund Spenser: A Variorum Edition, ed. Edwin Greenlaw, et al. (9 vols.; Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1932-49). A good single-volume edition, without notes, is The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, ed. J. C. Smith and E. de Selincourt (London: Oxford University Press, 1912).

• Hadfield, Andrew. "Spenser, Edmund (1552?–1599)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Jan. 2008.

• Hewitt, David. "Scott, Sir Walter (1771–1832)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. May 2008.

Frederick Locker Lampson was born in London in May, 1821. After a brief education, he obtained clerkships in Somerset House and then the Admiralty in Whitehall. Financial security came when he married Lady Charlotte Bruce in Paris in July 1849, a union that continued until her death in 1872 and issued in a daughter, Eleanor. His claim to fame in poetry is London Lyrics (1857), a collection of light verse that went through many revised editions and was very popular during the Victorian period. Locker also edited an anthology of poetry, Lyra Elegantiarum (1867), as well as a prose-and-verse miscellany, Patchwork (1879). Not long after his wife's death, Locker married again, to a younger Mistress Lampson, whose name he took, and they had four children. He died in Rowfant, Sussex, May 30, 1895, and was interred in Worth churchyard. For a life, see Augustine Birrell, Frederick Locker-Lampson: A Character Sketch (London: Constable, 1920; Z 989 L8B6).

Archibald Lampman was born in 1861 in Morpeth, Ontario, a village near Chatham and Ridgetown at the intersection of routes 3 and 17. His family moved to Gore's Landing on Rice Lake in 1867 but he received his education at the Collegiate Institute in Cobourg, Trinity College School in Port Hope, and Trinity College (now University of Toronto), where he edited the college newspaper and graduated in Classics in 1882. After a short time teaching high school in Orangeville, Lampman took a position as a low-paid clerk in the Langevin Block of the Canadian Post Office in the nation's capital at Ottawa, where he stayed for the rest of his life. He married Maud Playter in 1887 and they had two children. However, Lampman grew to love Kate Waddell in 1889, a romance that lasted until his death. One of the so-called "Confederation Group" of poets (with Duncan Campbell Scott and William Wilfred Campbell), Lampman was influenced by his friends Bliss Carmen and Charles G. D. Roberts. Lampman published two important volumes of poems in his lifetime: Among the Millet and Other Poems (Ottawa: Durie, 1888) and Lyrics of Earth (Boston: Copeland and Day, 1895). A final book, Alcyone (Ottawa: Ogilvy, 1899) came out shortly after his death. It lay to his friend Duncan Campbell Scott to bring out a collected Poems the next year. At first published only owing to a subvention and subscriptions, this book became very successful and was reissued several times afterwards. Some poems, such as "At the Long Sault: May, 1660," remained in manuscript until 1943, when Scott and the critic E. K. Brown edited them. Lampman is widely regarded as Canada's greatest poet of the nineteenth century. He was elected a member of the Royal Society of Canada in 1895. His manuscripts can largely be found at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. Margaret Coulby Whitridge's introduction to the reprint of the 1900 Poems includes a biographical note, and much may be gleaned from his letters and essays, for which see

At the Mermaid Inn, Conducted by A. Lampman, W. W. Campbell, Duncan C. Scott. [Essays having appeared in the Toronto Globe, 1892-93. Ed. Arthur S. Bourinot. Ottawa: Bourinot, 1958.
Archibald Lampman's Letters to Edward William Thomson (1890-1898). Ed. Arthur S. Bourinot. Ottawa: Bourinot, 1956.
Some Letters of Duncan Campbell Scott, Archibald Lampman, and Others. Ed. Arthur S. Bourinot. Ottawa: Bourinot, 1959.

The picture of Lampman is taken from The Poems of Archibald Lampman, ed. Duncan Campbell Scott (Toronto: George N. Morang, 1900). A cairn commemorating his life can be found at the village church in Morpeth on Route 3.

Born February 10, 1775, in London and educated at Christ's Hospital, Charles Lamb was a minor poet (and friend of S. T. Coleridge), but also the earliest editor of Elizabethan drama, and the greatest essay-writer of his age. He first took a job at South Sea House and from 1792 to his retirement in 1825 at East India House. Without much of an inheritance, Charles lived with his sister Mary Lamb throughout his life. They were true collaborators and co-dependents, each subject to periods of mental illness, each nursing the other during these times. Mary Lamb, while insane, in 1796 had knifed to death their their mother. It was owing to Charles' love that she was de-institutionalized and allowed to go home. They earned their living by writing, co-authoring Tales from Shakespear (1807), The Adventures of Ulysses (1808), Mrs Leicester's School (1809), and Poetry for Children. Later he turned to journalism and published Essays of Elia, a first series (1823) and a second series (1833), the works for which he is justly remembered. He died December 27, 1834, from erysipelas. Mary survived until 1847.

• Cecil, David, Lord. A Portrait of Charles Lamb (London: Constable, 1983). PR 4863 C43 Robarts Library
• The Charles Lamb centenary number, December 1834-1934 containing 43 manuscript poems, etc., in Lamb's autograph ... also books by, and about, Charles Lamb and his circle (London: Sotheran booksellers, 1934). Pamph LE L.B S Robarts Library
• Lamb, Charles. Elia, 1823 (Menston: Scolar Press, 1969). PR 4861 A1 1823A Robarts Library
• --. Works (London: Ollier, 1818). 2 vols. B-10 7222 Fisher Rare Book Library
• -- and Mary Lamb. Poems and Plays, ed. E. V. Lucas (London: Methuen, 1912). PR 4860 A2 1912 Trinity College Library
• --. Poetry for Children, ed. William Macdonald (1903; Freeport: Books for Libraries Press, 1970). PR 4860 A25 1970 Robarts Library
• The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb, ed. Edwin W. Marrs, Jr. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1975-). PR 4863 .A44 Trinity College Library
• Thomson, J. C. Bibliography of the Writings of Charles and Mary Lamb: A Literary History (Hull: J.R. Tutin, 1908.). Z 8474 T55 Robarts Library