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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 Peacock, 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 illustrated 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 title 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.



American Youth (Chicago): 3. 102.

Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia (New York): 1881, p. 685: `Obituary'.

Black, G. D.: `The Antiochian' (Yellow Springs, O.) 2: 4. 4-6, February, 1886.

Black, G. D.: `Belford's Magazine' (Chicago) 6. 187-190, January, 1891.

Blackman, O.: see `Lawrence' under `V'.

Boykin, Laurette N.: `Home Life of Sidney Lanier', Atlanta, Ga., 1889, 12 pp.

Browne, F. F.: `The Dial' (Chicago) 5. 244-246, January, 1885.

Browne, Wm. H.: `Memorial Address' before the Johns Hopkins University, October 22, 1881, 8 pp. Privately printed.

Browne, Wm. H.: `Letter at the Unveiling of a Bust of the Poet at Macon, Ga.', October 17, 1890, in `The Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution' of October 19, 1890.

Browne, Wm. H.: `From Dixie' (Richmond, Va., 1893), pp. 40-51.

Buck, Dudley: Music to Lanier's `Centennial Cantata'. New York: G. Schirmer, 1876.

Buck, Dudley: `Sunset', music to Lanier's `Evening Song'. New York: G. Schirmer, 1877.

Buckham, J.: `An Account of the Hopkins Memorial Meeting of February 3, 1888', `Literary World' (Boston) 19. 56-57, February 18, 1888.

Burton, R. E.: `An Account of the Hopkins Memorial Meeting of February 3, 1888', `The Critic' (New York), 9. 63-64, February 11, 1888; also in Gilman's `Memorial of Sidney Lanier', pp. 47-50.

Burton, Richard E.: `Lanier
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