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D.M.R. Bentley

D.M.R. Bentley is a Distinguished University Professor and the Carl F. Klinck Professor in Canadian Literature at the University of Western Ontario and has published widely in the field of Victorian literature. Among his publications are editions of Charles G.D. Roberts’s Canadian Poetry in Its Relation to the Poetry of England and America, Bliss Carman’s Letters to Margaret Lawrence 1927–1929 and The Confederation Group of Canadian Poets, 1880–1897, an authoritative study of Canada’s first school of poets. Bentley wrote the introduction to An English Canadian Poetics.