A winter holiday: Poetry Guide and Free Edition
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A winter holiday is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Carman, Bliss (1861–1929).
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A winter holiday by Bliss Carman is a collection of lyrical travel poems written in the late 19th century. The book evokes a winter escape from New England to the Bahamas, blending nature writing, travelogue, and reflections on art and color; its likely topic is how landscape, sea, and companionship restore the spirit. The sequence opens in Scituate, where the speaker visits Tortoise Shell, celebrates a painter friend nicknamed the Tortoise, and savors firelit winter evenings with neighbors. It then follows a stormy ocean crossing to the Lucayan Islands, where Nassau’s light, markets, palms, and sea-gardens inspire meditations on how art should capture ideals beyond mere view. Flying fish become emblems of aspiration; a playful dialogue with a Bay Street vendor weighs the impossibility of buying beauty against the free power to love and see; and a meeting with a small migrant bird mirrors the poet’s own search for calm. The book closes with a radiant ode to white Nassau, set against the bleak North, as a place of order, ease, and healing color.
Book and edition facts
- Title: A winter holiday
- Author credits: Carman, Bliss (1861–1929)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- Bahamas -- Poetry
- Canadian poetry -- 19th century
- New England -- Poetry
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