Select Poems of Sidney Lanier
Edited With an Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography
By Morgan Callaway, Jr., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English Philology in the University of Texas,
Formerly Fellow of the Johns Hopkins University;
Author of "The Absolute Participle in Anglo-Saxon"
[Amended to include "The Marshes of Glynn"]
To My Father
Preface
This edition of the `Select Poems of Sidney Lanier'' is issued
in the hope of making his poetry known to wider circles than hitherto,
especially among the students of our high-schools and colleges.
To these as to older people, the poems will, it is believed,
prove an inspiration from the stand-point both of literature and of life.
The biographical section of the Introduction rests in the main
upon Dr. Ward''s admirable `Memorial'' prefixed to the `Poems of Sidney Lanier''
edited by his wife, though a few additional facts have been gleaned
here and there. For most* of the Bibliography down to 1888 I am indebted
to my Hopkins comrade, Dr. Richard E. Burton, now of Hartford, Conn.,
who compiled one for the `Memorial of Sidney Lanier'',
published by President Gilman, of the Johns Hopkins University, in 1888.
Obligations to other publications about Lanier are in every instance
acknowledged in the appropriate place.
-* I say `most of the Bibliography down to 1888'', because Dr. Burton''s
different purpose led him to exclude items that could not be omitted
in a Bibliography that, like mine, tries to be complete.
As to the selections made, I wished to include `The Marshes of Glynn''
and yet not to exclude `Sunrise''. But both could not be put in,
and I finally gave the preference to `Sunrise'', chiefly on the ground
of its being Lanier''s latest complete poem.* I believe all will admit
that the poems selected fairly exemplify the genius ...
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