CARMAN, WILLIAM BLISS i929), Canadian poet and journalist, was born at Fredericton, New Brunswick, on April 15, 1861, and was educated at the universities of New Brunswick, Edinburgh (1882-83), and Harvard (1886-88) . From 1890 to 1892 he was literary editor of the New York Independent, afterwards working on the staffs of Current Literature and the Atlantic Monthly. The keynote of Carman's poetry is a pagan love of nature. He is a self-acknowledged disciple of Robert Browning, and in a lesser degree, of Matthew Arnold. His num erous volumes of verse include : Low Tide on Grand Pre (1893) Songs from Vagabondia (Boston, 1894) ; More Songs from Vag abondia (Boston, 1896) ; and Last Songs from Vagabondia (Bos ton, 1901) ; these last three containing lyrics by Richard Hovey; Ballads of Lost Haven (1897) ; By the Aurelian Wall (1898) ; Sappho (19o2) ; Pipes of Pan (19o3-05); Daughters of Dawn (1912) ; April Airs (1916, repr. 1922) ; and Later Poems (1921). Some of Carman's prose essays have been collected in Kinship of Nature 0904); Friendship of Art; and The Poetry of Life (19o5.) He died in New Canaan, Conn., June 8, 1929.