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The book gathers brief sketches, unfinished drafts, and lyrical fragments that reveal preoccupations with nature, music, and spiritual yearning. Short outlines and condensed images move from marshland observation and elemental forces to reflections on creative process, the struggles of artistic craft, and questions of faith. Occasional narrative openings and musical metaphors show an attempt to capture fleeting inspiration, while epigrammatic lines and hymnlike passages underline a blend of scientific curiosity and devotional feeling. Editorial notes situate these pieces as intimations of larger poems left in fragmentary form.

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Title: Poem Outlines

Author: Sidney Lanier

Release date: March 3, 2016 [eBook #51346]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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POEM OUTLINES
BOOKS BY SIDNEY LANIER
Published by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Poems. Edited by his Wife, with a Memorial by William Hayes Ward. With portrait. New Edition. 12mo $2.00
 
Select Poems of Sidney Lanier. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Prof. Morgan Callaway, Jr., University of Texas. 12mo net $1.00
 
Hymns of the Marshes. With 12 full-page illustrations, photogravure frontispiece, and head and tail pieces. (Oct.) 8vo (Postage Extra) net $2.00
 
Bob. The Story of Our Mocking Bird. With 16 full-page illustrations in colors from photographs by A. R. Dugmore. New and Cheaper Edition. 12mo. net $1.00
 
Letters of Sidney Lanier. Selections from his Correspondence, 1866-1881. With two portraits in photogravure. 12mo $2.00
 
Retrospects and Prospects. Descriptive and Historical Essays. 12mo $1.50
 
Music and Poetry. A Volume of Essays. 12mo $1.50
 
The English Novel. A Study in the Development of Personality. New and Revised Edition from New Plates. Crown 8vo $2.00
 
The Science of English Verse. Crown 8vo $2.00
 
The Lanier Book. Selections for School Reading. Edited and arranged by Mary E. Burt, in coöperation with Mrs. Lanier. Illustrated. (Scribner Series of School Reading.) 12mo net $0.50

BOY'S LIBRARY OF LEGEND AND
CHIVALRY

The Boy's Froissart. Illustrated. Alfred Kappes $2.00
 
The Boy's King Arthur. Illustrated $2.00
 
Knightly Legends of Wales; or, The Boy's Mabinogion. Illustrated $2.00
 
The Boy's Percy. Illustrated $2.00

POEM OUTLINES

BY
SIDNEY LANIER
The Artist: he
Who lonesome walks amid a thousand friends.
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
MDCCCCVIII
Copyright, 1908, by Charles Scribner's Sons
Published September, 1908