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1909. With a memorial by William Hayes Ward. A posthumous volume of the poems of Sidney Lanier, poet, critic, and musician, whose Civil War experiences made the remainder of his life a battle against time, poverty, and ill health. He was noted for his theory that the laws of music and poetry are identical and both based upon the physics of sound: duration, intensity, pitch, and tone color.Download Description
Shall self-wrapt husbands aye forget Kiss-pardons for the daily fret Wherewith sweet wifely eyes are wet-- Blind to lips kiss-wise set-- Fair Lady? ... Read more

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An invaluable reprint of the 1916 edition.
This is an invaluable reprint of the 1916 edition of Mary Lanier's 1884 collection, which is only marred by a certain over-solicitousness for the poet's fame that depreciates the early poems and the jolly, Twainy "dialect" poems, whice rise to Frost in "Thar's more in the Man than thar is in the Land."

Sidney Lanier saw the Real through "Christ's crystal" clear as the great fourth stanza of "Song of the Chattahoochee":

And oft in the hills of Habersham,
And oft in the valleys of Hall,
The white quartz shone, and the smooth brook-stone
Did bar me of passage with friendly brawl,
And many a luminous jewel lone
---Crystals clear or a-cloud with mist,
Ruby, garnet and amethyst---
Made lures with the lights of streaming stone
In the clefts of the hills of Habersham,
In the beds of the valleys of Hall.

"A Florida Sunday" is an evocation pure as any of Florida, and there is homesickness in "From the Flats":

Oh might I through these tears
But glimpse some hill my Georgia high uprears,
Where white the quartz and pink the pebble shine,
The hickory heavenward strives, the muscadine
Swings o'er the slope, the oak's far-falling shade
Darkens the dogwood in the bottom glade,
And down the hollow from a ferny nook
Bright leaps a living brook!

The famous "Hymns of the Marshes" are what Georgia is like, so that when in "Ireland" he offers against the famine "the main and cordial current of our love," he prophesies Finnegans Wake.

Hart Crane's noble tribute to "Psalm of the West", Pound's rare salute to "A Ballad of Trees and the Master", bespeak a poet loudly ignored.

His great Cantata for the Centennial would serve as well in 1976.

In his Afterword, John Hollander points to "the opening line of 'The Marshes of Glynn,' when separated from the weaker, rhyming second one: 'Glooms of the live-oaks, beautiful-braided and woven'; here again we feel that the music of Lanier's verse lies closer to the ebb and flow of Whitman's than to the brilliant contraptions of Swinburne's."That second line is, "With intricate shades of the vines that myriad-cloven"---go on to the third, "Clamber the forks of the multiform boughs," and you have Lanier.

An 19th Century Materpiece!
Sidney Lanier was perhaps the greatest poet produced by the South during the the 19th Century.His descriptions of the nature and the Georgian Marshes of Glen, as in "the slant yellow beam of the sun doth seemlike a lane from Heaven that leads to a dream..." and "beliefovermasters doubt and I know that I know..." are words that feed thesoul with the timeless nector of wisdom and humanity.I treasure this bookand any student of the American South and/or of American Poetry will findMr. Lanier's style of alliteration and assonance, together with hiswonderful imagery to be a feast for the soul in solitude. ... Read more

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English people use fancy words that are out dated
Arthurian Supremacy
This book is broken down into seven smaller books.The titles are as follows, "King Arthur", " Sir Lancelot Du Lake", "Garneth of Orokearly", "Sir Tristram", Galahd Sir Percival and the quest for the holy Grail", "The Fair maid of Astolate" And "The death of Arthur".This novel contains all of the classic stories about Arthur and his knights.From the birth of Arthur to the fall of his kingdom, this book has it all.Sadly there are basically no changes to the story line at all which can be disappointing. I Personally do not recommend this book for new readers or people who like to fast read given that the old English context makes it confusing and hard to read The old context is kind of a two edged sword it is both confusing and interesting. This novel was written by N. V. Kilen

King Arthur and his Most Noble Knights
King Arthur's Noble knights
Sidney Lanier's re-telling of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table may appear confusing. However this story has the same original plot and theme of King Arthur weaved into the story. This book contains stories on the coming and passing of Arthur in the 6th century, King Arthur's most noble knights, and the quest for the Holly Grail.
Sidney Lanier's version tells more details then other novels ofKing Arthur. For instance, Lanier always describes what knights do when they traveling to a destination. He tells where the knights stop and sleep for the nights and what they eat the next morning.
Lastly, in my opinion this book should be read by adults who understand the meaning of words such as wrought, meseemeth, and wot. I did not enjoy reading this novel because of the complexity of the language.

The Story Of King Arthur and His Knights
N.C. Wyeth illustrated the book of "The Boy's King Arthur"in 1917. The Boy's King Arthur, is avout the top main knights such as, Lancelot, and how they become a knight. This story exists as part of the original King Arthur stories, but it becomes shorter than the original. Also in The Boys King Arthur, you will encounter how knights acted back in the fourth century.
The author of this story uses more details, and more unique, and unusual things than the original story. The battle with Mordred and Arthur at the end, I considered that to be an extremely unique fight, because Mordred becomes a traitor to his own father, Arthur. Unusually, N.C. Wyeth adds old English in the ways of back then in the story. The Narrator of The Boys King Arthur remains just an outsider of the story. The main setting of the novel places in England, and the themes of the novel, exists as just how peasents and people become the top Knights of the Round Table. (Lancelot, Tristram, Galahad, Percival, and the fair maid of Astolat) Also the story illustrates how King Arthur becomes King of England, And his death.
I recommend that people should read this book only if they're thirteen and up. Also I recommend that you should read The Boys King Arthur only if you read the original version of King Arthur. I say this because the book remains in old English, and might be quite hard to understand. I thought this book is quite hard to understand of the old English, and the length of the book with the old English.

Gorgeous collectable..
This is a most gorgeous book, well produced on beautiful paper, with wonderful reproductions of the original NC Wyeth pictures. A collectable to treasure!

King Aurthur his nights and their ladies.
I think this book is very good in how it explanes the adventures king Aurthur has. I would only recomend this book to someone that likes midevil times. ... Read more

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Introduction

Chapter I.Ancestry and Boyhood

Chapter II. College Days

Chapter III.A Confederate Soldier

Chapter IV. Seeking a Vocation

Chapter V.Lawyer and Traveler

Chapter VI. A Musician in Baltimore

Chapter VII.The Beginning of a Literary Career

Chapter VIII. Student and Teacher of English Literature

Chapter IX. Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University

Chapter X.The New South

Chapter XI. Characteristics and Ideas

Chapter XII.The Last Year

Chapter XIII. The Achievement in Criticism and in Poetry ... Read more

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An introductory collection for students ... Read more