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Duncan Campbell Scott

1862–1947

Duncan Campbell Scott (1862–1947), born in Ottawa, was a civil servant in the Department of Indian Affairs and one of the Confederation poets.

His first collection, The Magic House and Other Poems, appeared in 1893; the poems here predate it. One of the poets chosen by W. D. Lighthall for Songs of the Great Dominion (London, 1889), an anthology of Canadian verse.

Poems (18)

  1. At the Cedars
  2. Ottawa
  3. The Reed-Player
  4. The Fifteenth of April
  5. For Remembrance
  6. Autumn Song
  7. The Forsaken
  8. The House of the Broken-Hearted
  9. The Half-Breed Girl
  10. A Summer Storm
  11. A Little Song
  12. The End of the Day
  13. Life and Death
  14. At Les Eboulements
  15. Above St. Irénée
  16. In November
  17. September
  18. Off Riviere du Loup

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