Select Poems of Sidney Lanier by Sidney Lanier
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and Ruskin's `Unto This Last' in prose. Widely as these two works
differ from `The Symphony' in form, they are one with it in purpose and in spirit. All three voice the outcry of the poor against the hardness of their lot and their longing for a larger life; all three show that the only hope of relief lies in a broader and deeper love for humanity. Analogues to individual verses of `The Symphony' are cited below. 1-2. See `Introduction', p. xxviii [Part III]. 31-61. See `Introduction', p. xxix [Part III]. 42-43. See St. Matthew 4:4. 55-60. It is precisely this evil that Ruskin has in mind, I take it, when he condemns the commercial text, "Buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest," and when he declares that "Competition is the law of death" (`Unto This Last', pp. 40, 59). 117. Compare `Corn', l. 21 ff. 161. For `lotos-sleeps' see Tennyson's `The Lotos-eaters', which almost lulls one to sleep, and `The Odyssey' ix. 80-104. 178. See St. Matthew 19:19. 182. See St. Luke 10:29, ff. 183-190. Compare `Corn', ll. 4-9, and see `Introduction', p. xxxii [Part III]. |
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