Select Poems of Sidney Lanier Part 22

Defence of Centennial Cantata: 'The Tribune' (New York), 1876.

Musical Festival in Baltimore: 'The Sun' (Baltimore), May 28, 29, 30, 1878.

Criticism of Rubinstein's Ocean Symphony: 'The Sun' (Baltimore), January 31, 1880.

The Story of a Proverb: 'Lippincott's Magazine' 23. 109-113, January, 1879.

Letter to Mr. J. F. D. Lanier, a banker of New York, giving an account of the Laniers in Europe and of their coming to America: privately printed, Baltimore, April 2, 1879, pp. 17.

A Fairy Tale for Grown People: 'St. Nicholas Magazine', 1879.

The Orchestra of To-day: 'Scribner's Monthly' (New York) 19. 897-904, April, 1880.

The New South: 'Scribner's Monthly' 20. 840-851. October, 1880.

Bob: 'The Independent' (New York) 34. 1-3, August 3, 1882.

Moral Purpose in Art: 'The Century Magazine' (New York) 4. 131-137, May, 1883.

Two Letters to Bayard Taylor: Taylor (M. H.) and Scudder's 'Life and Letters of Bayard Taylor' (Boston, 1884), vol. ii., 677, 693-94.

The Legend of St. Leonor, a Fragment from an Unfinished Lecture on "The Relations of Poetry and Science": 'The Independent' 37. 1627, December 17, 1885.

The Happy Soul's Address to the Dead Body, from Shakespeare Course of Lectures: 'The Independent', 1886.

A Great Man Wanted, Extract from Letter of November 15, 1874, to Judge L. E. Bleckley, of Georgia: 'The Acorn' (Towson, Md.), June, 1887; reprinted in 'The Critic' (New York) 7. 309, June 18, 1887.

From Bacon to Beethoven, published anonymously: 'Lippincott's Magazine'

41. 643-655, May, 1888.

Chaucer and Shakespeare: 'The Independent' 43. 1337-1338, 1371-1372, September 10 and 17, 1891.

Chaucer and Shakespeare Compared: 'The Independent' 43. 1401-1402, September 24, 1891.

What I Know about Flowers, a S. S. address delivered about 1868, but first published in 'The Sunday-school Times' (Philadelphia) 33. 739, November 21, 1891.

How to Read Chaucer: 'The Independent' 43. 1748, November 26, 1891.

Blood-red Flower of War, an extract from 'Tiger-lilies' (pp. 115-121): 'The Sunday News' (Baltimore), November 27, 1892.

Letters to Mr. and Mrs. Gibson Peac.o.c.k, from January 26, 1875, to June 1, 1880, edited by Wm. R. Thayer: 'The Atlantic Monthly' (Boston) 74. 14-28, 181-193, July, August, 1894.

IV. Uncollected Poems

Laughter in the Senate: 'The Round Table' (New York), 1868.

Civil Rights: 'The Herald' (Atlanta, Ga.), 1874.

Songs Against Death (five stanzas, the last fragmentary): 'The Century Magazine' 10. 377, July, 1886.

One in Two: 'Century Magazine' 12. 417, July, 1887.

Two in One: 'Century Magazine' 12. 417, July, 1887.

To "The White Flower" of The English Novel, written in 1878, but printed in 1890 by L. Prang (Boston) on an ill.u.s.trated Christmas Card.

On the Receipt of a Jar of Marmalade, written for Mrs. C. N. Hawkins in 1877, but printed in her husband's paper, 'The New Castle (Va.) Record', April 11, 1891.

The Lord's Romance of Time, an Outline: 'Sunday-school Times'

(Philadelphia), 1892.

To Lucie, written on St. Valentine's Day, 1880, published in 'From Dixie', Richmond, Va., 1893.

V. Poems in Anthologies

Blackman, O.: see 'Lawrence, W. M.'

Hutchinson, Ellen M.: see 'Stedman, E. C.'

Lawrence (W. M.) and Blackman (O.): 'The Riverside Song Book' (Boston, 1893) has 'Baby Charley' (p. 91) and 'May the Maiden' (p. 97), both set to music.

Putnam, S. A. Brock: 'The Poetry of America' (New York, 1894) has 'Life and Song', 'Nirvana', 'Ballad of Trees and the Master', and 'Sunrise'.

Roberts, C. G. D.: 'Poems of Wild Life' (London, 1888) has 'The Revenge of Hamish' (pp. 57-62).

Sladen, Douglas: 'Younger American Poets' (New York, 1891) gives (pp. 131-145) 'Sunrise', 'The Marshes of Glynn', 'Song of the Chattahoochee', 'A Ballad of Trees and the Master', an extract from 'The Symphony', and 'The Crystal'.

Stedman (E. C.) and Hutchinson (Ellen M.): 'A Library of American Literature'

(New York, 1891) gives (vol. x., pp. 145-151) 'The Marshes of Glynn', 'Song of the Chattahoochee', 'The Mocking-bird', 'The Revenge of Hamish', 'Night and Day', and a portrait.

VI. Criticisms* of Lanier's Life and Works

* Unless the t.i.tle of the criticism is given, the article treats Lanier's life and works in general. Except in special cases no account is made of articles in the daily papers. -- For brevity's sake I cite under this head the music composed for several of Lanier's poems.