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Thomas Campbell

Campbell is the honored elder bard of McIntyre's pantheon, saluted in verse as a model of poetic dignity and public feeling.

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Also known as Campbell, O Campbell

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Referenced as 'Ex-Mayor Thomas Brown', considered the father of the town who projected the first roads and bridges.

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He appears in the collection as a name to be celebrated rather than a figure to be dramatized — one of the poets McIntyre tips his hat to while building his own Canadian canon. The tension is generational: Campbell belongs to an older, grander British tradition that McIntyre admires but cannot simply imitate. He matters because he anchors the book's sense of lineage, reminding readers that these local poems are written in conscious conversation with a wider literary world.

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Sir Walter Scott
friendship · positive
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Byron
social · ambivalent
Washington Irving
friendship · positive

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Lines on Ingersoll
Referenced as 'Ex-Mayor Thomas Brown', considered the father of the town who projected the first roads and bridges.
Victoria Park and Caledonian Games
Mayor of the town who performed the naming ceremony of Victoria Park.
Thomas Campbell
The poet discussed; an anecdote reveals his timidity and the high praise from Scott and Byron.
Thomas Campbell
Central figure of the chapter, whose industry and farming efforts yield abundant crops and a secure home.
Brantford
Mentioned as the poet who wrote a dismal tale of Wyoming's vale and later recanted his account of Brant's cruelties after meeting Brant's son in England.
Reply to the Toast of Scottish Poets
Lauded as the sweet Bard of hope for tender feeling.
Lines on the North of Scotland
Mentioned as a representative from broad Argyle.
Lorne and Louise
Referenced through the Campbell line, which is united with the Royal Stewart line through the marriage.

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