Carman, William Bliss (1861-1929)

Canadian poet. His first collection was Low Tide on Grand-Pré (1893). With Richard Hovey, he produced three volumes of Songs from Vagabondia (1894, 1896, and 1901).

He also edited The Oxford Book of American Verse in 1927, and developed his philosophy of nature-worship in the essays in The Kinship of Nature (1903).

Carman was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, became a journalist, and was office editor of the New York Independent 1890-92.