William Henry Drummond
William Henry Drummond (born April 13, 1854 in Mohill , † April 6, 1907 in Cobalt ) was a Canadian poet of Irish origin.
Drummond came to Canada with his family in 1864. Since his father, an officer of the Royal Irish Constabulary, died a few months after emigrating, Drummond, the eldest of four sons, soon had to support the family and only attended school for a few years. He worked as an hourly wage earner, learned the trade of a telegraphist and worked for several years in a telegraph office.
In Bord-à-Plouffe, a village on the Rivière des Prairies , he got to know the life and language of the French-Canadian rural population in the Québec region. He later took classes at Montreal High School , attended McGill University, and completed a medical degree at Bishop's College . After graduation in 1884, he worked as a doctor at the Western Hospital in Montreal and later in Brome County.
Drummond wrote five volumes of poetry in the French-influenced English language of the country dwellers he had met in his youth: The Habitant (1898, with an introduction by the prominent writer Louis-Honoré Fréchette ), Johnnie Courteau (1901), Phil-o-rum's Canoe (1903), The Voyageur (1905) and The Great Fight (1909). They were all published by GP Putnam's Sons with illustrations by Frederick Simpson Coburn and became very popular in Canada. The writer Fréchette hailed him as "the pathfinder of a new land of song", and the Scottish journalist Alexander MacGregor Rose published pastiches of his works such as Hoch der Kaiser; Myself and Gott (1900).
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- Bartleby - Great Books online - William Henry Drummond (1854-1907)
- The Canadian Encyclopedia - Drummond, William Henry
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Drummond, William Henry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian lyric poet of Irish descent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 13, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mohill |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 6, 1907 |
| Place of death | Cobalt |