LM Montgomery on Bill Carman

“Carman is the foremost American poet of the present … Some of Carman’s work is very charming — yes, that’s just the word for it — charming. A large dose of it palls. He has only one or two notes and the constant repetition of these become monotonous, no matter how much they pleased at first. Then, he deals only with the joy of life. And no poet can be great who does not take the pain of life also into his poetry.”