The poems of Sidney Lanier continue to find an admiring audience more than a century after his death. Though his poetry evokes both the landscape and the romantic spirit of the Old South, his concerns for the natural world, spirituality, and the character of society offer universal appeal. This anthology includes Lanier's best-known and most celebrated works--"Sunrise," "The Song of the Chattahoochee," "A Song of Love," and "The Marshes of Glynn." These and the other poems presented in the collection reveal Lanier's interest in the welfare and preservation of nature and society and his...
The poems of Sidney Lanier continue to find an admiring audience more than a century after his death. Though his poetry evokes both the landscape and ...
An informative and suggestive study.Contents: From Bacon to BeethovenThe Orchestra of TodayThe Physics of MusicTwo Descriptive Orchestral Works: The Ocean Symphony; Raid of the VikingsThe Maryland Musical FestivalThe Centennial CantataThe Legend of St. LeonorNature-MetaphorsA Forgotten English PoetThe Death of ByrhtnothChaucer and ShakespeareReview of Hayne's PoetryJohn Barbour's BruceThis title is cited and recommended by: Books for College Libraries and the Bibliography of American Literature.
An informative and suggestive study.Contents: From Bacon to BeethovenThe Orchestra of TodayThe Physics of MusicTwo Descriptive Orchestral Works: The O...
PITIABLE case, when one's book, in the hour of birth, must wear steel on dimpled shoulders and grasp swordhilt with chubby fingers; must be laid into a battle as into a cradle, like Hercules among the serpents; must be its own accoucheur, nurse, and defender If each child, immediately after finding itself sprawling on this earth, were required to stand up in swaddling-clothes and pronounce some raison d'etre satisfactory to the world at large, --what a bore were life to the living, what a dread to the unborn, what a regret to most of the dead A man has seventy years in which to explain his...
PITIABLE case, when one's book, in the hour of birth, must wear steel on dimpled shoulders and grasp swordhilt with chubby fingers; must be laid into ...
