This volume completes the life work of this “Sweet Singer by
the Sunset Sea.” In it are included all the best poems formerly
published under the following titles: “Songs of the Sierras”--“Songs
of Sunland”--“Songs of Summerlands”--“Songs of Italy”--“Songs of
the Mexican Seas”--“Classic Shades”--“Songs of the Soul”--“Olive
Leaves”--“Joaquin,” and others. The book contains 330 pages of double
column matter, printed from new type on laid paper. Each of the
longer poems is followed by extensive foot notes written by the poet
himself, also a most interesting, reminiscent preface and appendix
narrating incidents and scenes in his eventful life, never published
before. It has several illustrations showing the poet at different
ages, also a beautiful scene from his present home on “The Hights.”
PRICE.
Beautifully Bound in Silk Cloth, side and back stamp
in gilt, gilt top $2 50
Gift Edition, bound in three-quarter Levant 4 50
Limited Autograph Edition, bound in full Morocco 7 50
WHAT TWO GREAT POPULAR POETS SAY:
Edwin Arnold recently said: “Joaquin Miller is one of the two
greatest American poets.”
James Whitcomb Riley said of Joaquin Miller’s singing: “It is the
truest American voice that has yet thrilled the echoes of our wild,
free land, and awakened the admiration and acclaim of the Old World.
No marvel that our Country is proud of this proud child of hers,
who in all lands has sung her dawning glory and his own changeless
loyalty to her.”
_Songs of the Soul_
This volume contains this well known poet’s latest, and as pronounced
by all critics, best poetic productions. The longest poem, entitled
“Sappho and Phaon,” occupies seventy-three pages of the book, and
is destined to become a classic. Besides this there are several of
his older and most popular poems, such as “Columbus,” “Passing of
Tennyson,” “Sunset and Dawn at San Diego,” etc., making a 12 mo.
volume of 163 pages, with author’s latest portrait.
PRICE.
Bound in Fine Silk Cloth, design on cover, Library Edition $1 00
Author’s Autograph Gift Edition, bound in full padded Leather 3 50
Paper Edition, printed in Gilt 25
“If Joaquin Miller had written nothing else, this one poem (Sappho
and Phaon) would make a place for him among immortals.”--_The Wave._
The _Critic_, in a recent article, places him among the world’s
greatest poets.
The _London Athenæum_ gives “Columbus” first place among all the
poems written by Americans as to power, workmanship and feeling.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:
Italicized text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_.
Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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