2nd edition, Dec 1917, one month after first...no label on spine....no DJ "The Canadian Rupert Brooke"; on the title page: "Second Lieutenant, Eleventh Leicesters, Killed in Action, in France, May 7, 1917." Small 8vo, 127 pp., frontis. port. of author. Trotter (1890-1917) was a Toronto poet and 2nd Lieut of the 11th Leicesters; he was killed in action in France in 1917.


Trotter, Bernard Freeman. Canadian Twilights and other poems.
Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild and Stewart, 1917.

Trotter, an Edwardian poet of nature, went into the trenches as a student from McMaster University and in the process of experiencing the war, was transformed in his vision from a naive naturalistic perspective to a voice on the verge of Modernism. He was killed in 1917.