Chapter V: Part 5

Roberts, Charles G. D.: `To the Memory of S. L.', in his `In Divers Tones', Boston, 1886, pp. 95-96; `On Reading the Poems of S. L.', ib., p. 97; `For a Bust of L.', `The Independent' (New York) 43. 625, April 30, 1891.

Scollard, Clinton: `Literary World' (Boston), vol. 18, May 14, 1886.

Tabb, John B.: `To Sidney Lanier', in Gilman's `Memorial', p. 11; `Sidney Lanier', `The Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution' of October 19, 1890; `Greeting to S. L.', in `The Times-Democrat' (New Orleans) of December, 1891, and quoted by Spann in `The Independent' (New York) 46. 822, June 28, 1894.

Thomas, Edith M.: Gilman's `Memorial', pp. 22-23.

Turnbull, Francese E.: Gilman's `Memorial', pp. 18-21.

[End of original text.]

Other sources relating to Sidney Lanier:

(No attempt has been made to be complete. This only serves
as a pointer to other materials.)

Centennial Edition of the Works of Sidney Lanier (in 10 volumes), ed. Charles R. Anderson and others (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1945).

Flute Concerto of Sidney Lanier, by Myrtle Whittemore (New York: Pageant Press, 1953). *

The Life of Sidney Lanier, by Lincoln Lorenz (New York: Coward-McCann, 1935).

A Living Minstrelsy: The Poetry and Music of Sidney Lanier, by Jane S. Gabin (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1985). *

Sidney Lanier, by Jack De Bellis (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1972).

Sidney Lanier, by Edwin Mims (Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1905), also available as an etext: Project Gutenberg, February, 1998. *

Sidney Lanier: A Biographical and Critical Study, by Aubrey Harrison Starke (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1933). *

Sidney Lanier, Poet and Prosodist, by Richard Webb (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1941). *

Sidney Lanier: The Man, the Poet, the Critic, by Edd Winfield Parks (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1969).

Letters of Sidney Lanier, Selections from His Correspondence, 1866-1881, ed. Henry W. Lanier (New York: Scribner's, 1899).

Letters of Sidney Lanier to Col. John G. James, ed. Margaret Lee Wiley (Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1942).

Some Reminiscences and Early Letters of Sidney Lanier, ed. George Herbert Clarke (Macon, Ga.: Burke, 1907).

-- * 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:

All instances of `Laus Mari(ae)' All instances of C(ae)dmon when compared with that of (Ae)schylus, shows an "enormous growth Half veile\d in the twilight shade, "I have a boy whose eyes are blue as your `Ae"thra's'. Every day Richly expending thy much-bruise/d heart I speak for each no-tongue/d tree I'm gwine to stand stiff-legged for de Lord dis blesse\d day. `Yes,' I rejoined, `a difference toto c(oe)lo,' whereat he laughed again, Superb and sole, upon a plume/d spray [1] All instances of Cyclop(ae)dia On the sense, entrance/d, flinging (Ae)olian The globe/d clarity of receiving space, From part oft sundered, yet ever a globe/d light, `Nirva^na'