Select Poems of Sidney Lanier

Name: Select Poems of Sidney Lanier
Author: Lanier, Sidney

Lanier, Sidney

American poetry -- 19th century

--
* According to Mrs. Oliver at the Middle Georgia Historical Society,
  in Macon, Ga., patrons express special interest in these works.
--


The Johns Hopkins University has a large collection of Lanier materials.
Cynthia Requardt, the Curator of Special Collections, has noted
that many visitors are more interested in his music than his poetry.
Joan Grattan (Manuscripts) has confirmed that the above selections
represent the most important materials on Lanier.
The index to these materials is online, at  gopher://musicbox.mse.jhu.edu/
and more specifically at  gopher://musicbox.mse.jhu.edu/00/mss/ms007.txt
(as of 5 March 1998).




Notes to the text:



This text has been amended to include "The Marshes of Glynn",
and some notes on the same (mostly drawn from the biography of Sidney Lanier,
by Edwin Mims, 1905) that were not in the original.

The Notes to the poems were originally in a section to themselves,
between the Poems and the Bibliography.

References to page numbers in the introduction have had amended
to include a reference to which part of the introduction that page is in.

The text of some of the poems differs slightly in spelling and punctuation
from the text in `Poems of Sidney Lanier'.  No effort has been made
to make the texts conform, except where this text appeared to be in error.



Changes to the text:


Introduction:  IV.  Lanier's Poetry:  Its Style:

[ Of littles that large life compound,'*3* ]
  changed to:
[ Of littles that large life compound,'"*3* ]


"The Revenge of Hamish", line 27:

[ Drew leaping to-burn-ward; huskily rose ]
  changed to:
[ Drew leaping to burn-ward; huskily rose ]
  as per "Poems of Sidney Lanier" and common sense.


"Notes:  A Ballad of Trees and the Master":

[ which inspired these intense lines, `Into the Wood my Master went', ]
  changed to:
[ which inspired these intense lines, `Into the Woods my Master went', ]
  as per the line in the poem.

(It should also be noted that "A Ballad of Trees and the Master"
has sometimes been published under the title "Into the Woods My Master Went".)


Bibliography:  IV:  Uncollected Poems:

[ One in Two:  `Century Magazine' 12. 417, July, 1877 ]
  changed to:
[ One in Two:  `Century Magazine' 12. 417, July, 1887 ]
  as per the evidence.

Various minor punctuation errors in the Bibliography have also been corrected.

References to verses of scripture have been changed to modern form.
(E.g., John 3:16 instead of John iii. 16.)


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The following had to be stripped:

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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Select Poems of Sidney LanierLanier, Sidney

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Select Poems of Sidney Lanier

Lanier, Sidney

American poetry -- 19th century

--
* According to Mrs. Oliver at the Middle Georgia Historical Society,
  in Macon, Ga., patrons express special interest in these works.
--


The Johns Hopkins University has a large collection of Lanier materials.
Cynthia Requardt, the Curator of Special Collections, has noted
that many visitors are more interested in his music than his poetry.
Joan Grattan (Manuscripts) has confirmed that the above selections
represent the most important materials on Lanier.
The index to these materials is online, at  gopher://musicbox.mse.jhu.edu/
and more specifically at  gopher://musicbox.mse.jhu.edu/00/mss/ms007.txt
(as of 5 March 1998).




Notes to the text:



This text has been amended to include "The Marshes of Glynn",
and some notes on the same (mostly drawn from the biography of Sidney Lanier,
by Edwin Mims, 1905) that were not in the original.

The Notes to the poems were originally in a section to themselves,
between the Poems and the Bibliography.

References to page numbers in the introduction have had amended
to include a reference to which part of the introduction that page is in.

The text of some of the poems differs slightly in spelling and punctuation
from the text in `Poems of Sidney Lanier'.  No effort has been made
to make the texts conform, except where this text appeared to be in error.



Changes to the text:


Introduction:  IV.  Lanier's Poetry:  Its Style:

[ Of littles that large life compound,'*3* ]
  changed to:
[ Of littles that large life compound,'"*3* ]


"The Revenge of Hamish", line 27:

[ Drew leaping to-burn-ward; huskily rose ]
  changed to:
[ Drew leaping to burn-ward; huskily rose ]
  as per "Poems of Sidney Lanier" and common sense.


"Notes:  A Ballad of Trees and the Master":

[ which inspired these intense lines, `Into the Wood my Master went', ]
  changed to:
[ which inspired these intense lines, `Into the Woods my Master went', ]
  as per the line in the poem.

(It should also be noted that "A Ballad of Trees and the Master"
has sometimes been published under the title "Into the Woods My Master Went".)


Bibliography:  IV:  Uncollected Poems:

[ One in Two:  `Century Magazine' 12. 417, July, 1877 ]
  changed to:
[ One in Two:  `Century Magazine' 12. 417, July, 1887 ]
  as per the evidence.

Various minor punctuation errors in the Bibliography have also been corrected.

References to verses of scripture have been changed to modern form.
(E.g., John 3:16 instead of John iii. 16.)


ASCII does not allow for the easy use of accents.
The following had to be stripped:

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Select Poems of Sidney Lanier

Select Poems of Sidney Lanier

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