Writing later in the "Ottawa Journal," William Wilfred Campbell saw "Dreamland" as a precursor to the nature poetry later popularized in Canada by the Confederation Poets: "The thirty-three poems constitute the first attempt to deal with Canadian nature, in the manner of Keats and the other classic poets, and many of them in theme and treatment are similar to the verse of Lampman and Roberts... And there are strong evidences in Mair's work that he influenced these poets to a great extent."