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Kate Seymour MacLean
A 19th-century poet whose work helped shape early Canadian literary culture, she wrote lyrical verse about nature, memory, faith, and national feeling. Her best-known collection, The Coming of the Princess, and Other Poems, shows a voice that is graceful, reflective, and deeply rooted in her adopted country.
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The Coming of the Princess, and Other Poems
by Kate Seymour MacLean
About the author
Born in the United States in 1829, she later moved to Canada after her marriage and became known as Kate Seymour MacLean. She published poetry in Canadian and American periodicals and built a reputation as a respected literary voice in the late 19th century.
Her best-known book, The Coming of the Princess, and Other Poems (1881), gathers poems that range from personal and meditative to public and patriotic. Her writing often turns to landscape, seasonal change, loss, and devotion, while also reflecting the growing cultural confidence of Canada in her era.
MacLean was associated with the Canada First spirit of her time, and her work has remained part of the record of early Canadian poetry. She died in Toronto in 1916, leaving behind verse that still offers a vivid glimpse of the literary and national imagination of her generation.