Drummond matthews biography of william henry

  • William Henry Drummond (né William Henry Drumm) was born 13 April 1854, in County Leitrim, Ireland, and died 6 April 1907 in the mining.
  • Biographical Sketch: William Henry Drummond, dialect poet and physician, was born in.
  • Drummond, William Henry (1854–1907), poet and physician, was born 13 April 1854 in Currawn House, Mohill, Co. Leitrim, eldest of four sons of George Drumm (1812.

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    "William Henry Drummond and American Dialect Poetry"

    149 Holger Kersten. "William Henry Drummond and American Dialect Poetry." Informal Empire? Cultural Relations Between Canada, the United States and europe. Eds. Peter Easingwood, Konrad Gro13, and Hartmut Lutz. Kiel: l&f Verlag, 1998. 149-167. William Henry Drummond and American Dialect Poetry Holger Kersten In an attempt to defme the responsibility of a Canadian writer, an anonymous critic described the poet's task in the following manner: [T]heir office is to refine and exact the material progress [ ... ] [to] preserve us from heartless slavery to wealth, luxury, and artificial distinctions, bygd enlarging our sympathies with our fellow men, and uniting us by a thousand sweet and holy ties to all that is good and lovely in naturlig eller utan tillsats and Humanity.l More than sixty years later, Canadian critic Georges Bugnet, in his essay "One Way to Write 'Canadian,'" reiterated the demand and modified th

  • drummond matthews biography of william henry

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    The centenary of a poet's death is a fit occasion for a reconsideration of his poetry and achievements. William Henry Drummond (né William Henry Drumm) was born 13 April 1854, in County Leitrim, Ireland, and died 6 April 1907 in the mining community of Cobalt, Ont.

    With his parents, George Drumm and Elizabeth Morris Soden, he immigrated to Canada in 1864 and settled in Montréal. After the death of his father in 1866, Drummond dropped out of school to support his mother. He worked as a telegraphist in the winters in Montréal, and in the summers he worked in the lumber town of Bord-à-Plouffe, Que., where he first witnessed the habitants and voyageurs who were to become the subjects and narrators of his poems. Eventually, he completed his schooling at the High School of Montreal and attended McGill College and Bishop's College in Montréal, graduating with an MD in 1884. He spent the next 23 years in his medical practice, notably completing his internship as a surgeon at the Western H

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