Carman, Bliss

William Bliss Carman (known as Bliss Carman) was a Canadian poet born in Fredericton, New Brunswick in 1861. He received both a BA and an MA from the University of New Brunswick, and studied briefly at the University of Edinburgh and Harvard. After moving to the United States in the 1880s, he became the literary editor for the Independent, a magazine in New York City. He went on to work as a writer and editor for various other magazines and newspapers.

During his lifetime, Carman published over 20 volumes of poetry, including Low Tide on Grand Pré (1893), the Vagabondia series (1894 - 1900, with Richard Hovey), The Pipes of Pan (1902 - 1905), and Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (1904). In the 1920s, he went on a reading and lecturing tour in Canada, during which he was unofficially crowned Canada's Poet Laureate, and officially given membership to the Royal Society of Canada in 1925, and awarded the Lorne Pierce Medal for distinguished service to Canadian Literature in 1928.

Bliss Carman passed away in New Canaan, Connecticut, United States in 1929, at the age of 68.