Part 30

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: 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:

"The Revenge of Hamish", line 27:

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

(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:

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 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'