CAMPBELL, WILLIAM WILFRED Cana dian poet, was born in Berlin (now Kitchener), West Ontario, the son of a Church of England clergyman, and was himself educated for the ministry, at Wycliffe college, Toronto, and at the Episcopal Divinity school, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1885 he was or dained to the priesthood of the Episcopal Church, and three years later was made rector of St. Stephen, New Brunswick; but in 1891 he gave up his parish, and settled in Ottawa, where he entered the Canadian Civil Service. In conjunction with some other young civil servants he conducted a section on literary criticism under the title of the "Mermaid Inn," in the Toronto Globe, and he pub lished several volumes of poetry. He had already published Lake Lyrics (St. John, N.B., 1889) ; Beyond the Hills of Dream appeared in 1899, and Collected Poems in 1905. Three literary dramas, Mordred and Hildebrand, which appeared separately in i895, Daulac and Morning, were collected under the title of Poetic Tragedies (1908). Campbell also edited the Oxford Book of Cana dian Verse (1906) . His work is characterized by an intense love of nature and by strong patriotic and imperialist sympathies.
Campbell's Collected Poems have been edited, with a memoir by W. J. Sykes (1923).