In a 1902 Gazette article Cather writes: "Of Bliss Carman it is difficult to speak without prejudice, for he is altogether made up of contradictions. He is, I believe, a Canadian by birth, but like Charles G.D. Roberts he has come to be regarded among the poets of our own nation ...."
In the same article, Cather calls him "one of the few men who have learned by slow degrees to write good poetry."