Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . himself ex-clusively to literature. He divides his timebetween Boston and Washington, returningto the Maritime Provinces for the hot months of each year. Mr. Carman issued his first volume of poems in 1893, when hehad already won reputation as a contributor to the magazines. Thevolume was called (Low Tide on Grand Pre: a Book of ; Itwas published in New York and London, and ran quickly into asecond edition. Equally successful was the volume called (Songsfrom Vagabondia, published in 1894. About half the poems in thisvolume
Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . himself ex-clusively to literature. He divides his timebetween Boston and Washington, returningto the Maritime Provinces for the hot months of each year. Mr. Carman issued his first volume of poems in 1893, when hehad already won reputation as a contributor to the magazines. Thevolume was called (Low Tide on Grand Pre: a Book of ; Itwas published in New York and London, and ran quickly into asecond edition. Equally successful was the volume called (Songsfrom Vagabondia, published in 1894. About half the poems in thisvolume are by Mr. Richard Hovey, whose name appears on the title-page with that of Mr. Carman. In 1895 appeared Behind the Arras:a Book of the Unseen.* Much of Mr. Carmans known work remainsstill uncollected. In that outburst of intellectual energy which has of late won forCanada a measure of recognition in the world of letters, Mr. Car-mans work has played a large part. The characteristics of theCanadian school may perhaps be defined as a certain semi-Sufiistic. Bliss Carman BLISS CARMAN 3303 worship of nature, combined with freshness of vision and keennessto interpret the significance of the external world. These charac-teristics find intense expression in Mr. Carmans poems. And theyfind expression in an utterance so new and so distinctive that itsinfluence is already active in the verse of his contemporaries. There are two terms which apply pre-eminently to Mr. are Lyrist and Symbolist. His note is always the lyric <( lyric cryw thrills all his cadences. If it be true that poetry isthe rhythmical expression in words of thought fused in emotion, thenin his work we are impressed by the completeness of the phrase is filled with lyric passion. At its best, the result isa poem which not only haunts the ear with its harmonies but at thesame time makes appeal to the heart and intellect. When the resultis less successful it seems sometimes as if the th
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