Photographs of Bliss Carman and clippings pertaining to him, 1892-1929.

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Photographs of Bliss Carman and clippings pertaining to him, 1892-1929.

The collection contains a signed cabinet card photogaph by Lewis Rice of Windsor, N.S., and an photograph by G. Haven Bishop inscribed to "B" from Uncle Bliss. Clippings include two obituaries; "The mystic vagabond, stanzas to the memory of Bliss Carman" by Percy MacKaye; and an article in the Literary Digest paying tribute to Carman and discussing the disposition of his ashes.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7914469

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...

MacKaye, Percy, 1875-1956

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Percy MacKaye was a poet and dramatist. From the description of Note, n.d. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007259 American poet and dramatist. From the description of Papers, 1909-1912. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36097093 Author Percy MacKaye was born into a theatrical family in New York City. He graduated from Harvard in 1897, and travelled through Europe for a time before taking a teaching job at the Craigie School in N...