Charles Heavysege
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Charles Heavysege (2 May 1816 – 14 July 1876) was a Canadian poet.
Born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, Heavysege emigrated to Montreal in 1853 where he worked as a carver. He later became a reporter for the Montreal Daily Witness.
His first published work was The revolt of Tartarus, a poem in six parts, published between 1852 and 1856. He published Sonnets in 1855, Saul: a drama in three parts in 1857, Count Filippo; or, the unequal marriage in 1860, and Jephthah’s daughter in 1865.
[edit] In Fiction
Solly Bridgetower, a character in Robertson Davies' The Salterton Trilogy, is an associate professor of English at the fictional Waverley University, and is urged by his department chair, Dr. Sengreen, to stake out a claim in the emerging field of "Amcan" (American-Canadian literature) by editing a scholarly edition of Heavysege's collected works, in order to earn tenure and make a name for himself (Leaven of Malice, 1954).
