Charles G. D. Roberts
Author · 10 Jan 1860 – 26 Nov 1943

Charles G. D. Roberts

Canadian poet and prose writer who wrote about Canadian exploration and natural history, verse, travel books, and fiction. Has been called "Father of Canadian Poetry." Suffered a posthumous collapse of his reputation due to the unyielding conservatism of his poetry.

Works

The heart of the ancient wood
1900
The forge in the forest
1896
Kings in exile
1908
Earth's enigmas.
1896
A history of Canada
1897
The watchers of the trails
1904
A sister to Evangeline
1898
Red Fox
1905
Children of the wild
1913
The feet of the furtive
1900
The haunters of the silences
1900
By the marshes of Minas
1899
More kindred of the wild
1890
Around the camp-fire
1896
The kindred of the wild
1900
The Canadian guide-book
1892
Neighbors unknown
1910
Barbara Ladd
1902
In divers tones
1886
The Kindred of the Wild: A Book of Animal Life
1902
Eyes of the wilderness
1923
In the morning of time
1919
The heart that knows
1906
Hoof and claw.
1913
The backwoodsmen
1909
Wisdom of the wilderness
1922
The book of the native
1896
The book of the rose
1903
Poems
1901
Kindred of the Wild
2001
Jim
1919
House in the Water
2013
The secret trails
1913
A history of Canada for high schools and academies
1904
The Raid from Beausejour And How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mortgage
2004
The raid from Beauséjour and How the Carter Boys lifted the mortgage
1894
Red Fox
1905
Earth's enigmas
1896
The ledge on bald face
1918
Poems of wild life.
1888
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