The House in the Water: A Book of Animal Stories (Illustr...
Roberts, Charles George Douglas / Bull, Charles Livingston / Smith, Frank Vining
Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860-1943) was a Canadian poet and prose writer. He is known as the "Father of Canadian Poetry" because he served as an inspiration for other writers of his time. In 1879, he earned a BA from the University of New Brunswick and, in the following year, published his first book of poems, Orion and Other Poems. From 1879 to 1895, he worked as a teacher in Chatham and Frederiction, New Brunswick, as editor of th...