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Kate Seymour MacLean

A 19th-century poet remembered for lyrical, thoughtful verse, she wrote about nature, memory, faith, and Canadian life with warmth and musical grace. Her best-known collection, The Coming of the Princess, and Other Poems, helped earn her a place in early Canadian literary history.

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The Coming of the Princess, and Other Poems

The Coming of the Princess, and Other Poems

by Kate Seymour MacLean

About the author

Born in 1829 and died in 1916, Kate Seymour MacLean was a poet associated with Canada, and her work circulated widely enough to remain available through major public-domain archives and audiobook collections.

Her best-known book, The Coming of the Princess, and Other Poems, was published in 1881 while she was in Kingston, Ontario. In its original prefatory material, editor G. Mercer Adam praised her work as an important contribution to Canadian poetry, and the collection ranges across nature lyrics, reflective poems, seasonal pieces, and poems tied to Canadian settings and feeling.

MacLean is not as widely known today as some of her contemporaries, but her poems still speak clearly: they are melodic, emotionally direct, and often attentive to landscape, loss, hope, and national identity. For listeners exploring early Canadian verse, she offers a voice that feels both gentle and quietly ambitious.