John Daniel Logan

John Daniel Logan (May 2, 1869 - January 24, 1929) was a Canadian poet and academic. He is noted for teaching the first university-level course on Canadian literature

Life
Logan was born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, the oldest son of Elizabeth Gordon (Rankin) and Charles Logan. He was educated at Pictou Academy and Dalhousie University, from which he received a B.A. in Philosophy in 1893, and an M.A. in 1894. He then went to Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1896.

After graduating he served as the principal of Hampton Academy in New Hampshire, and then as a professor of English and Philosophy in the State University of South Dakota.

From 1908 to 1910 he as the music critic of the Sunday World of Toronto. He also worked for the Toronto Daily News.

In 1915 he delivered a series of lectures on Canadian literature at Acadia University. which were labelled by the ''Acadia Bulletin as "the first course of lectures on distinctively Canadian Literature which has ever been given in a Canadian University.". After service in the Army during World War I, Logan retrurned to Acadia in as "Special Lecturer on Canadian Literature" to conduct the first university course on the subject in 1919-1920 - a course hailed by the Toronto Globe as "an innovation of national importance.".

Poetry

 * Preludes, Sonnets and Other Verses. 1906.
 * Songs of the Makers of Canada, and Other Homeland Lyrics. 1911.

Non-fiction

 * The Structural Principles of Style. 1900.
 * The Religious Function of Comedy. 1907.
 * Democracy, Education, and the New Dispensation. 1908.
 * The Making of the New Ireland. 1909.
 * Insulters of Death. 1916.
 * J.D. Logan and D. French, Highways of Canadian Literature. 1924.