# Sidney Lanier

Author: Mims, Edwin, 1872-1959

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1224

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Sidney+Lanier+Mims&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The author of the introduction to the first complete edition of Sidney Lanier's poems -- published three years after the poet's death -- predicted with confidence that Lanier would "take his final rank with the first princes of American song." Anticipating the appearance of this volume, one of the best of recent lyric poets, who had been Lanier's fellow prisoner during the Civil War, prophesied that "his name to the ends of the earth would go." Indeed, there was a sense of surprise to those who had read only the 1877 edition of Lanier's poems, when his poems were collected in an adequate and worthy edition. Since that time the space devoted to him in histories of American literature has i...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sidney-lanier-1224/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sidney-lanier-1224/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sidney-lanier-1224/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sidney-lanier-1224/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sidney-lanier-1224/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sidney-lanier-1224/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sidney-lanier-1224/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sidney-lanier-1224/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sidney-lanier-1224/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sidney-lanier-1224/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sidney-lanier-1224/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sidney-lanier-1224/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sidney-lanier-1224/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sidney-lanier-1224/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sidney-lanier-1224/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sidney-lanier-1224/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sidney-lanier-1224/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sidney-lanier-1224/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sidney-lanier-1224/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sidney-lanier-1224/chapters/15/index.md)