- Harkins.
- Pattee.
- Toulmin.
- Countryside M. 23 (’16): 274 (portrait).
- Critic, 47 (’05): 426.
- Harp. W. 45 (’01): 1082 (portrait).
- Outlook, 69 (’01): 425; 93 (’09): 689. (Portraits.)
- So. Atlan. Q. 18 (’19): 145.
Of Lithuanian-Jewish ancestry. Became editor of the Arbeiter Zeitung, 1891, and of The Jewish Daily Forward, 1897. A journalist who has done most of his work in Yiddish, but who has also written one remarkable novel in English: The Rise of David Levinsky, 1917.
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- Cambridge.
- Van Doren.
- Dial, 63 (’17): 521.
- Nation, 105 (’17): 432.
- New Repub. 14 (’17): 31.
- See also Book Review Digest, 1917.
Born at Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, 1861. His ancestors lived in Connecticut at the time of the Revolution. A. B., University of New Brunswick, 1881; A. M., 1884. Studied at the University of Edinburgh, 1882-3, and at Harvard, 1886-8. Studied law two years. LL. D., University of New Brunswick, 1906. Came to live in the United States, 1889. Has been teacher, editor, and civil engineer.
In collaboration with Mary Perry King, Mr. Carman has produced several poem-dances (Daughters of Dawn, 1913, and Earth Deities, 1914), which it is interesting to compare with Mr. Lindsay’s development of the idea of the poem-game.
Mr. Carman’s most admired work is to be found in the Vagabondia volumes, in three of which he collaborated with Richard Hovey (1894, 1896, 1900). His Collected Poems were published in 1905, and his Echoes from Vagabondia, 1912.
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