Bliss Carman , FRSC

Bliss Carman, FRSC (April 15, 1861 - June 8, 1929) was a preeminent Canadian poet. He was born William Bliss Carman in Fredericton, in the Atlantic Canadian province of New Brunswick. He published under the name "Bliss Carman," although the "Bliss" is his mother's surname. Portrait of Bliss Carman, from [1]. Quite obviously the image pre-dates 1923 and is thus in the public domain. ... The Royal Society of Canada, (French: La Société royale du Canada) The Canadian Academy of the Sciences and Humanities, is the senior national body of distinguished Canadian scientists and scholars. ... April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). ... 1861 (MDCCCLXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link with display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar) // January 1 - Benito Juárez captures Mexico City January 2 - Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia dies and is succeeded by... June 8 is the 159th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (160th in leap years), with 206 days remaining. ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The poor poet A poet is a person who writes poetry. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Fredericpolis silvae filia noblis (Fredericton noble daughter of the forest) Established: {{{Established}}} Area: 131. ... Motto: Spem reduxit (Hope restored) Official languages English, French Flower Purple Violet Tree Balsam Fir Bird Black-capped Chickadee Capital Fredericton Largest city Saint John Lieutenant-Governor Herménégilde Chiasson Premier Shawn Graham (Liberal) Parliamentary representation  - House seats  - Senate seats 10 10 Area Total  - Land  - Water  (% of total)  Ranked...

As with many Canadian poets, nature figures prominently as a theme in his work. In his time, he was arguably Canada's best known poet, and was dubbed by some the "unofficial poet laureate of Canada."

Biography

Bliss Carman was the great-grandson of United Empire Loyalists who fled to Nova Scotia after the American Revolution, settling in New Brunswick (then part of Nova Scotia). His literary roots run deep with an ancestry that includes a mother who was a descendant of Daniel Bliss of Concord, Massachusetts, the great-grandfather of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Also on his mother's side, he was a first cousin to another famous Canadian poet, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts. His sister was married to the botanist and historian William Francis Ganong. The name United Empire Loyalists is given to those British Loyalists who resettled in British North America and other British Colonies as an act of fealty to King George III after the British defeat in the American Revolutionary War. ... Motto: Munit Haec et Altera Vincit (Latin: One defends and the other conquers) Official languages English, French (Canadian Gaelic) [] Capital Halifax Largest city Halifax Regional Municipality Lieutenant-Governor Mayann E. Francis Premier Rodney MacDonald (PC) Parliamentary representation  - House seats  - Senate seats 11 10 Area Total  - Land  - Water  (% of total)  Ranked... John Trumbulls Declaration of Independence, showing the five-man committee in charge of drafting the Declaration in 1776 as it presents its work to the Second Continental Congress The American Revolution refers to the period during the last half of the 18th century in which the Thirteen Colonies that... Motto: Spem reduxit (Hope restored) Official languages English, French Flower Purple Violet Tree Balsam Fir Bird Black-capped Chickadee Capital Fredericton Largest city Saint John Lieutenant-Governor Herménégilde Chiasson Premier Shawn Graham (Liberal) Parliamentary representation  - House seats  - Senate seats 10 10 Area Total  - Land  - Water  (% of total)  Ranked... Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early nineteenth century. ... Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (January 10, 1860 - November 26, Canadian writer and poet, considered one of the most important figures in the development of a national Canadian literature. ... William Francis Ganong, M.A., Ph. ...

Carman was educated at the University of New Brunswick, the University of Edinburgh, Harvard University and New York University. Relocated to New York City Carman was influential as an editor and writer for the Independent, the Cosmopolitan, the Atlantic Monthly, the Chap Book and other literary journals. He is also well known for his anthology and editing work on The World's Best Poetry (10 volumes, 1904) and The Oxford book of American Verse (1927). The University of New Brunswick (UNB) is a Canadian university located in the province of New Brunswick. ... The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1582,[4] is a renowned centre for teaching and research in Edinburgh, Scotland. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) , is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Founded in 1636,[1] Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning still operating in the United States. ... New York University (NYU) is a major research university in New York City. ... Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC, City That Never Sleeps, The Concrete Jungle, The City So Nice They Named It Twice Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1676 Government  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area... The Atlantic Monthly (also known as The Atlantic) is an American literary/cultural magazine that was founded in November 1857. ...

After 1909, he lived in New Canaan, Connecticut but became a corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 1928, the Society awarded him its Lorne Pierce Medal. New Canaan is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Stamford, on the Five Mile River. ... The Royal Society of Canada, (French: La Société royale du Canada) The Canadian Academy of the Sciences and Humanities, is the senior national body of distinguished Canadian scientists and scholars. ... Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ... The Lorne Pierce Medal is awarded every two years by the Royal Society of Canada to recognize achievement of special significance and conspicuous merit in imaginative or critical literature written in either English or French. ...

Bliss Carman died at the age of 68 in New Canaan, Connecticut. His body was returned home and interred in the Forest Hill Cemetery in Fredericton, New Brunswick. New Canaan is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Stamford, on the Five Mile River. ...

He is honoured with a school named after him in Toronto, Ontario [1]. Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Diversity Our Strength Image:Toronto, Ontario Location. ...

Poetry by Carman

• A Seamark: A Threnody for Robert Louis Stevenson. Boston: Copeland And Day, 1875.
• Low Tide on Grande Pre: A Book Of Lyrics. London: D. Nutt, 1894.
• Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey. Songs From Vagabondia. Illus. Tom B. Meteyard. Boston, Copeland and Day, 1894.
• Behind The Arras: A Book Of The Unseen. Illus. T. B. Meteyard. Boston: Lamson, Wolffe, 1895.
• Ballads of Lost Haven: A Book Of The Sea. Boston: Lamson, Wolfee, 1897.
• By The Aurelian Wall: And Other Elegies. Boston: Lamson, Wolffe, 1898.
• Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey. Last Songs From Vagabondia. Illus. Tom B. Meteyard. Boston: Small, Maynard 1901.
• Ballads and Lyrics. London, Bullen, 1902.
• Ode on the Coronation of King Edward. Boston: L. C. Page, 1902.
• From The Green Book Of The Bards. His Pipes Of Pan, No.2. Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1903.
• From The Book Of Myths. His Pipes Of Pan, No. 1. Boston: L. C. Page, 1904.
• The Kinship Of Nature. Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1904.
• Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (Intro. by Charles G.D. Roberts.) Boston: L. C. Page, 1904. (Gutenberg edition) Online version
• Songs from A Northern Garden. Pipes Of Pan, Number 4. Boston: L. C. Page, 1904.
• Songs Of The Sea Children. Boston: L. C. Page, 1904.
• From The Book Of Valentines. Boston: L. C. Page, 1905.
• Poems. London: Chiswick P, 1905.
• The Poetry Of Life. Boston: L. C. Page, 1905.
• The Friendship of Art. Boston: L.C. Page, 1908.
• The Making of Personality. Boston: L. C. Page, 1908.
• The Rough Rider: And Other Poems. M. Kennedy: New York, 1909.
• Bliss Carman and Mary Perry King. Daughters Of Dawn: A Lyrical Pageant or Series Of Historic Scenes For Presentation With Music and Dancing. New York: M. Kennerley, 1913.
• Echoes From Vagabondia. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1913.
• Bliss Carman and Mary Perry King. Earth Deities: And Other Rhythmic Masques. New York: M. Kennerley, 1914.
• April Airs: A Book Of New England Lyrics. Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., 1916.
• Bliss Carman and Mary Perry King. The Man of The Marne: And Other Poems. New Canaan, Conn.: Ponus P, 1918.
• Later Poems. Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., 1922.
• Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey. More Songs From Vagabondia. Illus. Tom B. Meteyard. Boston: Small, Maynard. 1924.
• Far Horizons. Toronto: M&S, 1926.
• Sanctuary: Sunshine House Sonnets. Illus. Whitman Bailey. Toronto: M&S, 1929.
• Wild Garden. Toronto: M&S, 1929.
• Bliss Carman's Poems. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1931.
• Bliss Carman's Scrap-Book: A Table Of Contents. Ed. Lorne Pierce. Toronto: Ryerson, 1931.
• Pipes Of Pan. Toronto: Ryerson, 1942.
• The Selected Poems Of Bliss Carman. Ed. Lorne Pierce. Toronto: M&S, 1954.
• A Vision Of Sappho. Toronto: Canadiana House, 1968.
• Windflower: Poems Of Bliss Carman. Ed. Raymond Souster and Douglas Lochhead. Ottawa: Tecumseh P, 1985.
• Vagabond Song. Tweed, Ont.: Bundle Buggy P, 1987.

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Critical works on Carman

Book-length

• "Bliss Carman's Letters To Margaret Lawrence, 1927-1929". Post-Confederation Poetry: Texts And Contexts. Ed. D.M.R. Bentley. London: Canadian Poetry P, 1995.
• Bliss Carman : A Reappraisal. Ed. Gerald Lynch. Ottawa : University Of Ottawa Press, 1990.
• Letters of Bliss Carman. Ed. H. Pearson Gundy. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University P, 1981.
• Hugh McPherson. The Literary Reputation Of Bliss Carman : A Study In The Development Of Canadian Taste In Poetry. 1950.
• Muriel Miller. Bliss Carman, A Portrait. Toronto: Ryerson, 1935.
• Muriel Miller. Bliss Carman : Quest And Revolt. St. John's, Nfld.: Jesperson P, 1985.
• Donald G Stephens. Bliss Carman. 1966.
• Donald G. Stephens. The Influence Of English Poets Upon The Poetry Of Bliss Carman. 1955.
• Margaret A. Stewart. Bliss Carman : Poet, Philosopher, Teacher. 1976.

Articles

• C. Nelson-McDermott. "Passionate Beauty: Carman's Sappho Poems." Canadian Poetry 27 (1990):40-45.
• Tracy Ware, Ed. "Arthur Symons' Reviews of Bliss Carman." Canadian Poetry 37 (1995): 100-13.

External links

• Bliss Carman bio at carman.net
• Works by Bliss Carman at Project Gutenberg
• Biography at Bliss Carman School