"E. Pauline Johnson" [Emily Pauline Johnson, aka Tekahionwake] (1862-1913) by John Garvin, (1859-1935)
Garvin, John William, ed. Canadian Poets [Page 145] E. Pauline Johnson
(Tekahionwake) Since 1889, I have been following her career with a glow of admiration and sympathy. I have been delighted to find that this success of hers had no damaging effect upon the grand simplicity of her nature. Up to the day of her death her passionate sympathy with the aborigines of Canada never flagged. . . . . Her death is not only a great loss to those who knew and loved her: it is a great loss to Canadian literature and to the Canadian nation. I must think that she will hold a memorable place among poets in virtue of her descent and also in virtue of the work she has left behind, small as the quantity of that work is. I believe that Canada will, in future times, cherish her memory more and more, for of all Canadian poets she was the most distinctly a daughter of the soil, inasmuch as she inherited the blood of the great primeval race now so rapidly vanishing, and of the greater race that has supplanted it. HEODORE W ATTS-DUNTON. | |
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