Editing Bliss Carman (section)

===''The Pipes of Pan''===
"[[Pan (god)|Pan]], the goat-god, traditionally associated with poetry and with the fusion of the earthly and the divine, becomes Carman's organizing symbol in the five volumes issued between 1902 and 1905" under the above title.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}} Under the influence of Mrs. King, Carman had begun to write in both prose and poetry about the ideas of 'unitrinianism,' "a strategy of mind-body-spirit harmonization aimed at undoing the physical, psychological, and spiritual damage caused by urban modernity ... therapeutic ideas [which] resulted in the five volumes of verse assembled in ''Pipes of Pan''." The ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography (DCB)'' calls the series "a collection that contains many superb lyrics but, overall, evinces the dangers of a soporific aesthetic."<ref name="DCB"/>

The 'superb lyrics' include the much-anthologized "The Dead Faun" from Volume I, ''From the Book of Myths''; "From the Green Book of the Bards", the title poem of Volume II; "Lord of My Heart's Elation" from the same volume; and many of the erotic poems of Volume III, ''Songs of the Sea Children'' (such as LIX "I loved you when the tide of prayer"). As a whole, though, the Pan series shows (perhaps more than any other work) the truth of [[Northrop Frye]]'s 1954 observation that Carman "badly needs a skillful and sympathetic selection."