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William Bliss Carman

Male : Poet & Essayist. In 1897 met Mary Perry King and lived with the King family until his death
Nationality : Canadian Place of Birth : Fredericton, New Brunswick

Date of Birth : 1861 Date of Death : 1929 Age : 68

Other Work : Journalist

Education : Fredericton Collegiate School, University of New Brunswick, Edinburgh University & Harvard
1889-1900
Low Tide on Grand Pre
(c1889)
Low Tide on Grand Pre : A Book of Lyrics
(1893 David Nutt)
Saint Kavin : A Ballad
(1894)
Songs from Vagabondia
(1894 Mathews & Lane) - with Richard Hovey
Behind the Arras : A Book of the Unseen
(1895 Elkin Mathews 5/-)
A Seamark : A Threnody for Robert Louis Stevenson
(1895)
More Songs from Vagabondia
(1896 Elkin Mathews 5/-) - with Richard Hovey
Ballads of Lost Haven : A Book of the Sea
(1897)
The Green Book of the Bards
(1898)
By the Aurelian Wall : Elegies
(1898 Lamson, Wolffe, Boston)
A Winter Holiday
(1899)
The Vengeance of Noel Brassard : A Tale of the Acadian Expulsion
(1899)

1901-1905
Christmas Eve at Saint Kavin's
(1901)
Last Songs from Vagabondia
(1901) - with Richard Hovey
Ballads and Lyrics
(1902)
Coronation Ode
(1902)
Pipes of Pan : Number One - From the Book of Myths
(1902)
Number Two : From the Green Book of the Bards
(1903)
Number Three : Songs of the Sea Children
(1904)
Number Four : Songs from a Northern Garden
(1904 John Murray)
Number Five : From the Book of Valentines
(1905)
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Sappho : Lyrics
(1902)
The Word of Saint Kavin's
(1903)
The Kinship of Nature
(1903)
A Vision of Sappho
(1903)
The Friendship of Art
(1904)
Sappho : One Hundred Lyrics
(1904 De Vinne Press, Boston) - 50 signed
Poems
(1904 Scott-Thaw, NY / John Murray, London) - 2 vols. 500
Collected Poems
(1905)
The Poetry of Life
(1905)

1906-1920
The Princes of the Tower, The Wise Men from the East & To the Winged Victory
(1906)
The Gate of Peace
(1907)
The Making of Personality
(1908) - with Mary Perry King
Rough Riders & Other Poems
(1909)
A Painter's Holiday & Other Poems
(1909)
Echoes from Vagabondia
(1912)
The Daughters of Dawn : A Lyrical Pageant or Series of Historical Scenes
(1913) - with Mary Perry King
Album of Six Songs by Henri Duparc, Music by Debussy
(1914)
Earth Deities and Other Rhythmic Masques
(1914) - with Mary Perry King
April Airs : A Book of New England Lyrics
(1916)
Four Sonnets
(1916)
James Whitcomb Riley : An Essay
(1918)
The Man of the Marne and Other Poems
(1918) - with Mary Perry King

1921 Onwards
Later Poems
(1921)
(Ed) Our Canadian Literature ; Representative Verse (1922) - with Lorne Pierce
Ballads and Lyrics
(1923)
Far Horizons
(1925)
Talks on Poetry and Life : Lectures
(1926) - Edited by Blanche Hume
(Ed) The Oxford Book of American Verse (1927)
Wild Garden
(1929)
Sanctuary : Sunshine House Sonnets
(1929)
The Music of Earth
(1931)
Bliss Carman's Scrap-Book
(1931) - Edited by Lorne Pierce
Poems
(1931)
Youth in the Air
(1932)
To a Chickadee
(1933)
A Little Child's Prayer
(1939)
Selected Poems
(1954) - Edited by Lorne Pierce

READING
Julian Hawthorne : William Bliss Carman
(1929)
James Cappon : William Bliss Carman and the Literary Currents & Influences of His Times
(1930)
Muriel Miller : William Bliss Carman
(1935)
William Inglis Morse : William Bliss Carman - Bibliography, Letters,
Fugitive Pieces & Other Data
(1941)
Donald G Stevens : William Bliss Carman
(1966)