CHAPTER XIII Parker and Scott, F. G. 210 Parker as a Sonneteer of Spiritual Love—Origin and Theme of a Lover’s Diary—Musical and Colorful Lyrical Verse—Scott’s Poetry a Reflection of his Personality—Distinguished as the ‘Poet of the Spirit’—Chief Qualities of his Poetry. CHAPTER XIV Minor Poets 219 The Term ‘Minor’ Defined—Ethelwyn Wetherald—Jean Blewett—Francis Sherman—A. E. S. Smythe—S. Frances Harrison—Arthur Stringer—Peter McArthur—Isabel Ecclestone Mackay. CHAPTER XV Elegiac Monodists 229 The Elegiac Monodists of Canada—Charles G. D. Roberts—Bliss Carman—Wilfred Campbell—Duncan Campbell Scott—William Marshall—James De Mille. CHAPTER XVI Novelists 241 The Fictionists of the Systematic School—The Historical Romancers—Lighthall—Saunders—Parker—Marquis—Maclennan and McIlwraith—Agnes C. Laut—Wilfred Campbell—Charles G. D. Roberts—The Romancers of Animal Psychology—Thompson Seton—Roberts—Saunders—Fraser—The Evangelical Romancers—Ralph Connor—R. E. Knowles. CHAPTER XVII Short Story Writers 258 The Short Story Fictionists of the Systematic School—E. W. Thomson—Duncan Campbell Scott—Charles G. D. Roberts—Gilbert Parker—Ernest Thompson Seton—W. A. Fraser. _B. The New Genre_ CHAPTER XVIII William Henry Drummond 265 The New Canadian Genre of Idyllic Poetry—William Henry Drummond, Interpreter of the Habitant—Poet of Social Democracy in Canada. _C. The Decadent Interim_ CHAPTER XIX The Vaudeville School 271 The Decadent Interim in Canadian Literature—The Vaudeville School of Poets—Robert W. Service, Robert J. C. Stead, and Others. _D. The Second Renaissance_ CHAPTER XX The Restoration Period 280 The Restoration or Second Renaissance Period in Canadian Literature—New Forms, Themes, and Social Ideals—The Poets—Marjorie Pickthall—Robert Norwood—Katherine Hale—and Others.