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Select Poems of Sidney Lanier by Sidney Lanier
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immortalized it, is not infrequently the subject of poetic treatment now,
as in the works of Charles G. D. Roberts,*6* Clinton Scollard,*7*
and Maurice Thompson.*8* It is noteworthy, too, that many of
the younger poets of the day, both in Canada and the United States,
have sung Lanier's praise. A complete list is given in the `Bibliography'.
Still further, a devoted admirer, Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull, of Baltimore,
in `The Catholic Man', has in the person of Paul, the poet,
given us an imaginative study of the character of Mr. Lanier.
Finally, only a few months ago the Chautauquans of the class of 1898
determined to call themselves "The Laniers", in honor of
the poet and his brother.

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*1* See the `Bibliography'.
*2* `Memorial', p. xi.
*3* Gilman's `A Memorial of Sidney Lanier', pp. 5-6.
*4* Published in `The Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution' of October 19, 1890.
*5* See `The Chautauquan', as cited in the `Bibliography'.
*6* See recent files of `The Independent' (New York).
*7* See his `Pictures in Song' (New York, 1884), pp. 45-49.
*8* See his `Songs of Fair Weather' (Boston, 1883), pp. 27-28.
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II. Lanier's Prose Works



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