Educated at the University of New Brunswick, the University of Edinburgh and Harvard University, Carman published his first poem in 1884 in The Week. He worked as an editor and journalist for a number of Boston and New York City journals and newspapers including The Atlantic, Cosmopolitan, The Independent, Literary World and The Chapbook. In 1893, he published a poetry collection, Low Tide on Grand Pre, which was very successful. Between 1894 and 1900, he published Songs From Vagabondia in three volumes. In 1908, he moved to New Canaan, Connecticut. In 1925, he was made a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and in 1928 was awarded the Lorne Pierce Gold Medal. His other works include Ballads of Lost Haven (1897), Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (1904, The Pipes of Pan (1905), The Poetry of Life (1905), Echoes From Vagabondia (1913), Later Poems (1922), Far Horizons (1926) and Wild Garden (1929). |
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