But when the American Revolution took place, their love for England made the family move to the nearest English stronghold, New Brunswick, in 1783. This United Empire Loyalist strain was not only on Carman's father's side. His mother's family was descended from Rev. Daniel Bliss of Concord, Massachusetts, the great-grandfather of Ralph Waldo Emerson. In this environment Carman and his cousin--Charles G. D. Roberts--received a traditional, classical education. He studied in Fredericton from 1872 to 1878 under George R. Parkin, later chairman of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust, and graduated from the University of New Brunswick in 1881 with honors in Latin and Greek. He then went to Oxford for a short while, then to Edinburgh; but he was homesick and returned to Canada in 1883. From 1886 to 1888 he studied English literature at Harvard under Francis Child and took philosophy there from Josiah Royce. At Harvard he met the American poet Richard Hovey, with whom he was to collaborate later on the so-called Vagabondia series (1894-1900) to tell the "joys of the open road."
Having decided to become a professional poet, Carman worked for various publishing companies and magazines in New England.
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