Wilfred campbell biography

William Wilfred Campbell was a Canadian writer of the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries who was, for a time, an Anglican minister. His brief spell in the ministry dramatically affected his views on religion and he demonstrated this with a controversial series of articles in the Toronto Globe which attracted a great deal of negative reaction from the paper’s readers. He was known as one of the “Confederation Poets” and much of his work was in the form of verse drama, an example being the long piece called Mordred and Hildebrand. While continuing to write poetry he worked for many years as a civil servant in various departments.

Campbell’s place and date of birth is not certain but most accounts of his life put him down as being born on the 15^th June 1860 in Newmarket, Upper Canada. This is now in modern-day Ontario. His father was an Anglican minister whose job entailed moving around the region in order to set up and administer new frontier parishes across the whole of Canada West. By the time that William reached the age of eleven the family were relatively settled thoug

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