The Empire Builders And Other Poems is a collection of poems written by Robert J. C. Stead and published in 1908. The book contains a total of 64 poems, each of which explores a different theme or subject. Many of the poems in the collection are focused on the idea of empire-building and the role of the British Empire in shaping the world. Other poems touch on topics such as love, nature, and the human condition. The collection is notable for its use of vivid imagery and powerful language, which help to bring the poems to life and make them memorable. Overall, The Empire Builders And Other Poems is a thought-provoking and engaging collection of poetry that offers insights into the world of the early 20th century.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Robert James Campbell Stead was a Canadian novelist. Stead was born in Middleville, Ontario. In 1882, the family established a property in Cartwright, Manitoba. In 1899, at the age of 18, he started a weekly newspaper in Cartwright. His first book, The Empire Builders and Other Poems, was released in 1908, and for the next 23 years, until 1931, he wrote novels, short stories, and collections of verse that enriched the depiction of Canadian prairie life. According to Terrence Craig, "In his early poetry, such as The Empire Builders and Other Poems (1908), Stead mixed styles of Service and Kipling to produce a virulently nationalist concept of Canada and Canadians." Stead spent a large amount of time working in the immigration department of the Canadian Pacific Railway in Calgary, where he wrote "reams of rose-hued prose extolling the clean, healthy vigour of life in the open spaces-spaces opened courtesy of the CPR and available at good prices." On his own time, he works in the same style," and has become one of Canada's most well-known authors. Stead is most remembered for his novel Grain (1926). Dry Water, a novel he wrote in the early 1930s but was unable to find a publisher owing to the Depression, was released by the University of Ottawa Press in 2008.