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George Martin

1822–1900


George Martin (1822–1900) was a Canadian poet.

His poem Marguerite; or, The Isle of Demons (1887), a verse retelling of a sixteenth-century Quebec legend, supplies two of the pieces here. One of the poets chosen by W. D. Lighthall for Songs of the Great Dominion (London, 1889), an anthology of Canadian verse.

  1. Change on the Ottawa
  2. The Isle of Demons
  3. The Jewelled Trees

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