Bliss Carman papers [manuscript], 1891-1929.

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Bliss Carman papers [manuscript], 1891-1929.

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The collection consists chiefly of typescripts of poems copied out for Agnes Cook and letters to her. Carman discusses the writing and publication of his poems; expounds the doctrines of Unitrinianism and the fallacies of Christian Science; and shares misgivings (early in 1917) about Woodrow Wilson with his "moral cowardice and callous egotism." He also mentions the selling of letters from departed celebrities to autograph hunters and recommends she reads Vachel Lindsay. Correspondence mentions Richard Hovey, Mary Perry King, Odell Shepard, Anne Higginson Spicer, and Susan Hays Ward. The collection also contains an inscribed photograph post card of Carman; three printed copies of his poems; a partial bibliography; and obituaries.

circa 40 items.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Carman, Bliss, 1861-1929

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(William) Bliss Carman (1861-1929) was a Canadian poet and editor. Born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, he studied at the universities of New Brunswick and Harvard. He is usually grouped with the Confederation Poets, who developed a distinctively Canadian poetic voice in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Yet this identification with the Confederation group is somewhat misleading as Carman spent much of his life in New England and many readers assumed that he was American. Carman ed...

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

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Ward, Susan Hayes, 1838-1924

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Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931

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Nicholas Vachel Lindsay was born in Springfield, IL. He studied in Ohio, Chicago, and New York and acquired a reputation as a poet and lecturer. Lindsay became famous for his walk from Springfield, IL to New Mexico in 1912, and for an unusual method of writing poetry. In 1924 he arrived in Spokane where he worked as a columnist for the "Spokesman-Review". He returned to Springfield in 1929, and at the time of his death was a major figure in American poetry. From the description of Co...

Hovey, Richard, 1864-1900

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Hovey was born in Normal, Ill. in 1864, the son of Charles Edward and Harriette Farnham Hovey. He was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1885. During the years 1891 and 1892 he travelled in England and France. In 1894 he married Mrs. Henriette Kanpp Russell and wrote Men of Dartmouth. In 1899 he accepted a position as lecturer at Columbia University and professor of English at Barnard College. He died in New York City in 1900. From the description of Papers, 1878-1961. (Dartmouth Co...

Shepard, Odell, 1884-1967

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Spicer, Anne Higginson.

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King, Mary Perry, 1865-1939

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Gale, Agnes Cook.

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