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A century ago Oxford University Press published the first-ever anthology of Canadian poetry-a beautiful blue edition with gilt edges. "There are selections of verse in this volume which now appear for the first time in the pages of any Canadian anthology," proudly writes volume editor and poet Wilfred Campbell, the first anthologist to wrestle with the question, "What is Canadian?" The result is an anthology that spans the capture of Quebec to the early twentieth century, containing little-known meditations and the early historical verse of Canada's Confederation Poets.
William Wilfred Campbell (1860-1918) was a Canadian poet, clergyman, and civil servant. He was born in Newmarket, Ontario, and studied at the University of Toronto, Wycliffe College, and the Episcopal Theological School. He served in various parishes from 1886 to 1891 before moving with his family to Ottawa, where he would work for the Department of Militia and Defence until his death. Often included among the Confederation Poets, he had achieved remarkable success by age thirty-one, having been published in the continent's most prestigious magazines. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1894. The Wynford edition is introduced by Len Early, associate professor of English at York University.
