In the 1980s, a group of young poets appeared, including Charles Roberts, editor-in-chief of Weekly (1860- 1943) and his cousin Bliss Kaman (186 1- 1929). They are all influenced by English literature and advocate pre-Raphael aestheticism poetry. Their poems are influenced by English poets Keats and Tennyson in rhetoric and structure. In terms of ideological content, it embodies the transcendental view of American poet Emerson. Roberts is good at writing lyric poems about fishing villages and rural scenery in eastern Toronto. His works are full of patriotic enthusiasm, meticulous scenery writing, and occasionally show nostalgic sadness. The representative is "Today's Song". Kaman is good at describing nature with images, linking it with beautiful things and lamenting the changes in the world. Author of Low Tide of Grand Puri Lake (1893). Most of Lampman's landscape poems show fantastic harmony and quiet nature, and describe the rural scene in Ottawa. His social poems show the oppressive feeling brought by modern civilization and machines. His masterpiece is Lyrics of the Earth (1896). Scott's poems describe the struggle between the Indians in rural and northern grasslands of Quebec and nature, including Al's piper.
Isabella Crawford, a poetess (1850- 1887), described the hardships and even death brought by nature, while people were comforted and loved in their struggles.
Other poets include wilfred Campbell (1860- 19 19), Pauline Johnson (1862- 19 13) and Robert severs (/kloc). During this period, Canadian English poetry creation was prosperous and colorful.