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- Living in the library world: Canadian poetry
- Charles Sangster
- 4 editions of this work
He took a job in the naval lab making cartridges at Fort Henry and two years later was transferred to the Ordnance office at the fort. About this time Sangster wrote his first serious poem, a line narrative in rhyming couplets called "The Rebel. During the twelve years he worked at the Ordinance office Sangster began doing part-time work for a Kingston newspaper, the British Whig. He also continued writing poetry and submitting it, anonymously or pseudonymously, to the local papers. Sangster first gained national attention as a poet in , when his poetry began appearing in Canada's Literary Garland magazine.
Soon his work appeared in other magazines, such as Anglo-American Magazine. In Sangster took a steamship excursion down the St. Lawrence River and up the Saguenay River in Quebec , which he wrote about for the Whig in a series of travel letters called "Etchings by the Way"—material he would also use in his long poem, "The St. Lawrence and the Saguenay". The book was widely praised by reviewers and readers. According to the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, the volume "was received with unanimous acclaim as the best and most important book of poetry produced in Canada until that time.
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In some sort, and according to his degree, Mr. Sangster may be regarded as the Wordsworth of Canada. That same year, Sangster married Mary Kilborn, a year-old Kingston woman.
The couple moved into a brick house at Barrie Street. An historical plaque was later erected to educate the public about the Sangster home. Mary died of pneumonia 16 months later. In , Sangster wrote the poem "Brock", commissioned for the inauguration of the monument to General Isaac Brock at Queenston Heights.
Sangster's second book of poetry, Hesperus and Other Poems and Lyrics , appeared in , published in Kingston and Montreal. This second book proved even more popular than the first, [4] and many critics considered it better than The St. Lawrence and the Saguenay. In , Sangster became a reporter for the Kingston Daily News , and 16 of his poems appeared in the first published anthology of Canadian poetry , Selections from Canadian Poets. The same year, the Sangsters' first child, Charlotte Mary, was born.
By , Sangster was in poor health, suffering from depression and a nervous disorder. He was also having financial difficulties.
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His daughter Charlotte died in , shortly after the move to Ottawa. The same year, though, Mrs. Sangster gave birth to a second daughter, Florence. Two years later, in , their third daughter, Gertrude was born, followed in by a son, Roderick. Sangster's job required long hours and didn't pay very well. I took a pile of M. When they get a man into the Civil Service , their first duty is to crush him flat, and if he is a fool of a Poet, or dares to think of any nonsense of that kind, draw him through a Knot or a gimlet hole a few times, pile with agony of toil, toil, toil until his nerves are flattened out, all the rebound knocked out of him, and then — superannuate him Sangster had a nervous breakdown in , [2] and developed a chronic nervous system condition during the s.
His wife Henrietta died sometime between and , leaving him to raise his new family alone. After another breakdown in March , he took a six-month leave of absence, and also resigned from the Royal Society. Finally, that September he retired and moved back to Kingston.
Living in the library world: Canadian poetry
For the first years of retirement, Sangster did little but convalesce. In July , he received a letter from W. It is a story that presents the tragic consequences of a sea captain's pride. On an ill-fated voyage in winter, he brings his daughter aboard ship for company.
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The captain ignores the advice of one of his experienced men, who fears that a hurricane is approaching. When the storm arrives, the captain ties his daughter to the mast to prevent her from being swept overboard.
She calls out to her dying father as she hears the surf beating on the shore, then prays to Christ to calm the seas. The ship crashes onto the reef of Norman's Woe and sinks; the next morning a horrified fisherman finds the daughter's body, still tied to the mast and drifting in the surf. The poem ends with a prayer that all be spared such a fate "on the reef of Norman's Woe. Word in Definition. Freebase 0. How to pronounce The Wreck of the Hesperus? Alex US English.
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