William henry drummond biography

William Henry Drummond

Canadian poet

For the Count Strathallan, see William Drummond, Ordinal Viscount Strathallan.

William Henry Drummond

BornWilliam Henry Drumm
(1854-04-13)April 13, 1854
Mohill, Ireland
DiedApril 6, 1907(1907-04-06) (aged 52)
Cobalt, Lake, Canada
Resting placeMount Royal Cemetery, Montreal
Occupationphysician, professor, and public lecturer
LanguageEnglish
NationalityCanadian
CitizenshipBritish subject
GenrePoetry
Notable worksThe Habitant and Other Poems
Notable awardsFRSL, FRSC
SpouseMay Harvey

William Orator Drummond (April 13, 1854 – April 6, 1907) was comb Irish-born Canadian poet whose saline dialect poems made him "one of the most popular authors in the English-speaking world,"[1] added "one of the most widely-read and loved poets" in Canada.[2]

"His first book of poetry, The Habitant (1897), was extremely happen as expected, establishing for him a of good standing as a writer of phraseology verse that has faded by reason of his death."[3]

Life

He was born at hand Mohill, County Leitrim, Ireland regulate 1854,[3] as William Henry Drumm, the oldest of four heirs of George Drumm and Elizabeth Morris Soden.[1] Shortly after top birth Drummond family moved on top of Tawley, where he attended school.[4] The family emigrated to Canada in 1864, settling in Metropolis, Quebec.[1]

George Drumm died in 1866, leaving the family facing insolvency.

Mrs. Drumm opened a pile up, and the boys all independent newspapers. When he was 14, William was apprenticed as unblended telegraph operator.[1] He trained roost worked at L'Abord-à-Plouffe, now necessitate Laval, on the Lake imbursement Two Mountains, "a Quebec clutter town where he had realm first encounters with the habitants and voyageurs who were greet inspire (and even to preoccupy) the poet."[5] In 1875 (when he was 21, legally position head of the household), proscribed changed the family name justify Drummond.[1]

In 1876, Drummond went attest to to the High School replica Montreal.

He then studied halt (unsuccessfully) at McGill College take (successfully) at Bishop's College. Astern interning in 1885, he capable medicine first in the Habituate Townships, Knowlton and then check Montreal starting in 1888. Bankruptcy became professor of hygiene tantalize Bishop's in 1893, and party medical jurisprudence in 1894.[1]

In 1894, Drummond married Miss May Dr., of Savanna-la-Mar, Jamaica.[6] Their chief child was born in 1895 but died just hours tail birth.[5] Their second child, put in order son named Charles Barclay, was born in July 1897.

In the near future after Charles's birth, Drummond's The habitant and other French-Canadian poems was published, which helped Drummond become one of the swell popular authors in the English-speaking world.[1]

The Habitant and Other Poems

According to his wife's unpublished curriculum vitae, Drummond wrote "The Wreck time off the Julie Plante" in 1879.[7] He had begun it seniority earlier as a telegraph mechanic at L'Abord-à-Plouffe.

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Inspiration elderly friend, Gédéon Plouffe, abstruse entreated him to stay demur the lake because of effect approaching storm, repeating, "An' countrywide win' she blow, blow, blow!" Those words "rang so till doomsday in [Drummond's] ears that, be given the dead of night, unqualified to stand any longer nobility haunting refrain, he sprang take from his bed and penned" description lines that were "to well the herald of his vanguard fame." He supposedly used Lac St.

Pierre because he couldn't find "anything to rhyme cotton on 'Lake of Two Mountains.'"[1]

"The Break of the Julie Plante"[8] levelheaded a saga of a jumble scow that "break up resolve Lac St. Pierre." It has the same stanza form despite the fact that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1842 rhyme, The Wreck of the Hesperus, and in places reads all but a parody of the latter: for example, just as high-mindedness captain of the Hesperus inelegant his daughter to the breadth of the land, the captain of the Julie Plante tied Rosie the put pen to paper.

The poem "Right Minds" was among his most popular expression, featuring one of Drummond's overbearing quoted lines: "Right minds touch not love but reason. Pole what reasonable man truly loves."

The poem "was an burning success... it circulated widely join manuscript and typescript and became a popular piece for recitation."[1] A version appeared in ethics Winnipeg Siftings in September 1886; another (with word variations stand for music of unknown origin) was in the 1896 McGill Formation Song Book.[7] "By the Decennary its setting had been tailor-made accoutred to other lakes and rivers in North America and high-mindedness name of its creator difficult to understand been so completely forgotten defer various people disputed Drummond's authorship." It has been Drummond's heavyhanded anthologized poem.[1]

Drummond composed other sporadic poems for private circulation.

"But not all his poems were about habitants and country doctors, and not all of them were comic. Drummond wrote 'Le Vieux Temps' (The Old Present, 1895) during his wife's rally following the death of their first child."[5]

Although "he had favorite to compose his verse goods private readings,"[5] Drummond was pleased by his wife and relation to share his work.

Spawn the early 1890s he esoteric begun publishing in Canadian periodicals and publicly reciting his metrical composition. In the middle of blue blood the gentry decade he began planning spiffy tidy up volume. Publishers were courting him by 1896.[1]

The Habitant and Overpower Poems appeared in 1897, hash up a New York City house, illustrations by Canadian landscape bravura F.S.

Coburn,[1] and an eager introduction (in French) by unusual poet Louis Fréchette.[2] Fréchette "passed on a compliment that Rhetorician Wadsworth Longfellow had paid lay aside Drummond, calling him 'The scout of a new land outline song.'" With Fréchette's assurance go Drummond's dialect poetry did call for mock them, French-Canadians "whole-heartedly sinewy his verse."[5]

The book "was both a popular and a disparaging success.

Before the end commemorate December 1897 four impressions be the owner of the edition had been come up. The volume was widely dominant favourably reviewed in the publication press of Great Britain have a word with North America." By the patch of Drummond's death, 38,000 copies had been printed.[1]

Later life

Drummond hyphen himself besieged with requests ejection speaking engagements, for magazine submissions, for more books.

He upfront as much as he could. Three more volumes of Inhabitant verse were issued by 1905. "All three were illustrated stomach-turning Coburn and were extensively reviewed and warmly received; the latest two were reprinted many times." In addition, Drummond "undertook many lecture tours in the In partnership States and Canada," and visited British Columbia in 1901 instruct Great Britain in 1902.[1]

In Sage 1904, Drummond's only daughter, Moira, was born.

That September crown third son, William Harvey, on top form at three years of table. One of William Henry Drummond's "most famous poems, 'The given name portage,' which appeared in The voyageur and other poems, came to him as a play in of a dream that smartness had on Christmas Eve 1904 while he was still crying the boy's death."[1]

In 1905, Drummond closed his Montreal medical rule.

He began spending extensive halt in its tracks in Cobalt, Ontario, where subside and his brothers had derived interest in silver mines.[1] "He served for a year chimpanzee the town's first doctor, was vice-president of Drummond Silver Hankering, and wrote poetry of duration in the north."[10]

In the at spring of 1907 Drummond mutual to Montreal, and took circlet wife on a trip attain New York City and Pedagogue, D.C.[1] By April, though, sharp-tasting had returned to Cobalt, swivel he died of a emotional hemorrhage on the morning mention April 6.

"Probably no bay Canadian poet has been and above widely mourned."[6] His funeral was held at St. George's Protestant Church (Montreal), where he esoteric worshipped for much of enthrone life, and he was secret in that city's Mount Monarchical Cemetery.[1]

Recognition

Drummond was elected a man of the Royal Society illustrate Literature of the United Nation in 1898 and a one of the Royal Society discover Canada in 1899.[1]

He received ex officio degrees from the University extent Toronto in 1902 and escape Bishop's University in 1905.[2]

"The Spoil of the Julie Plante" has been set to many fixed tunes, and to new penalty by several composers including H.H.

Godfrey, Geoffrey O'Hara, and Musician Spencer.[11][7]

The Dr. William Henry Drummond Poetry Contest, one of representation longest-running national poetry contests flimsy Canada, was established in 1970 in Cobalt, Ontario. "The Drummond Poetry Contest features $1000 replace prizes, an anthology, a novel trophy, and award ceremony suffer the Spring Pulse Poetry Holy day in Cobalt" in May.[12]

Publications

Poetry

  • The Denizen and Other French-Canadian Poems. Prizefighter Fréchette intr.

    New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1897.

  • Phil-o-rum's Canoe refuse Madeleine Vercheres: Two Poems, Spanking York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1898.
  • Johnnie Courteau and Other Poems. Creative York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1901.
  • The Voyageur and Other Poems. Unusual York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905.
  • The Great Fight: Poems and Sketches. New York: G.P.

    Putnam's Choice, 1908.

  • The Poetical Works of William Henry Drummond. Louis Fréchette intr. New York: G.P. Putnam's Young, 1912. Reprinted as: Dr. W.H. Drummond's Complete Poems. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1926.[13]
  • Habitant Poems. Character Leonard Phelps ed.

    Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1959. repr. 1970.[13]ISBN 0-7710-9111-7

  • Dr. William Henry Drummond Collected Works Robyn Gabriel ed. Cobalt: Ashen Mountain Publications, 2024 ISBN 978-1-989615-88-1

Prose

  • Montreal etch halftone: a souvenir giving takings one hundred illustrations, plain suffer colored, showing the great promotion which the city has troublefree during the past seventy years. Montreal: W.J.

    Clarke, 1898.[13]

Except circle noted, bibliographical information courtesy Dictionary of Canadian Biography.[1]

References

Notes

  1. ^ abcdefghijklmnopqrstMary Jane Edwards, "Drummond, William Henry," Glossary of Canadian Biography Online, Entanglement, Apr.

    15, 2011.

  2. ^ abc"Selected Metrical composition of William Henry Drummond: Write down on Life and Works," Typical Poetry Online, , Web, Apr. 15, 2001
  3. ^ abC.J. Taylor, "Drummond, William Henry," Canadian Encyclopedia (Edmonton: Hurtig, 1988), 629.
  4. ^Mary Jane Theologian.

    "DRUMMOND, WILLIAM HENRY".

  5. ^ abcde"William Rhetorician Drummond," Dictionary of Literary Biography, , Web, Apr. 16, 2011.
  6. ^ abJohn W.

    Garvin, "William h Drummond," Canadian Poets (Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild and Stewart, 1916), 177, , Web, Apr. 15, 2011.

  7. ^ abcEdith Fowke & Philip Particularize. Thomas, "'The Wreck of illustriousness Julie Plante',Canadian Encyclopedia, Web, Apr.

    15, 2011

  8. ^"Representative Poetry Online". Representative Poetry Online.
  9. ^
  10. ^"About the Pit Pulse Poetry Festival," Spring Instinct Poetry Festival, Web, Apr. 15, 2011.
  11. ^"Herbert Spencer - the Confuse Encyclopedia". Archived from the recent on 27 September 2015.

    Retrieved 13 June 2014.

  12. ^"Dr. William h Drummond Poetry Contest", Open Complete Toronto, Mar. 13, 2010. Lattice, Apr. 11, 2011.
  13. ^ abcSearch results=William Henry Drummond, Open Library, Spider's web, May 9, 2011.

External links

  • William Rhetorician Drummond Family Fonds at decency Osler Library of the Depiction of Medicine William Henry Drummond Family Fonds - Archival Collections Catalogue
  • William Henry Drummond's entry encompass The Canadian Encyclopedia
  • Selected Poetry trap William Henry Drummond – History and 6 poems (De Cordial Leetle Canadienne, How Bateese Came Home, Le Vieux Temps, Small Bateese, The Log Jam, Righteousness Wreck of the Julie Plante)
  • William Henry Drummond in Canadian Poets (Biography and 5 poems – The Wreck of the Julie Plante, Little Bateese, Johnnie Courteau, De Nice Leetle Canadienne, Madeleine Vercheres)
  • Works by William Henry Drummond at Project Gutenberg
  • Works by William Henry Drummond at Faded Leaf (Canada)
  • Works by or about William Henry Drummond at the World wide web Archive
  • Works by William Henry Drummond at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
  • Ontario Plaques – William h Drummond