ly specifically Duncan Campbell Scott who seemed particularly interested in discovering and publishing Lampman's work. Scott must have seen the influence and potential of Lampman's work. Lampman's career cannot be described in terms of development from apprenticeship to maturity as his career was influential but short- lived. Although there is an absence of human elements to Lampman's poetry he makes us aware of our human relation and tie to nature. Lampman makes us feel as though it was nature that makes us human. In Among the Millet, Lampman's first published work displayed him as "an Apostle of beauty, feeling, and meaning of the Canadian scene, a title which he will always be best and most widely known"(Connor 102). This first volume contains thirty sonnets of which Lampman uses to ‘Landscape' the nation. Lampman is a pictorial artist. He uses images to allow the reader to see what he sees. Connor describes this first volume of poetry as the "exponent of a great soul, a gentle heart, a refined taste, and a pure life"(97). Among the Millet is a delicate record of the surface of nature. To Lampman nature was the surest of subjects. He once said that "for the poet the beauty of external nature and the aspects of the most primitive life are always a sufficient inspiration"(Brown 89). This first volume of published poetry held thirty sonnets while his second published work held none. It is thought that the sonnet was Lampman's favored vehicle for disclosing what was going on within himself. Lampman's poetry is that of Reflection, rather than of Inspiration. The Poet "does not unveil for us the hidden workings of his own heart and life"(Crawford 29). Objectiveness rather than Subjectiveness is characteristic of his poetry. Lampman's poems are "chiefly the result of long and lonely contemplations, and in consequence uniformly serious, meditative, [and] austere"(Barry 17). The circumstances of Lampman's life allowed him plenty of leis...
