Sidney Lanier (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ... of the North Country Farmer "--certainly one of the very strongest things he ever wrote--not a poem, really? Mr. Peacock's friendship, in the matter of "The Symphony," as indeed in all others, has been wonderful, a thing too fine to speak of in prose. To-morrow I go to Savannah, and hope to find there a letter from Miss Stebbins. Tell me of her, when you write: and tell her, from me, how truly and faithfully I am her and Your friend, Sidney Laniek. Philadelphia, Pa., July 31,1875. It was so good of you, my dear friend, to write me in the midst of your suffering, that it amounts to a translation of pain into something beautiful; and with this thought I console myself for the fear lest your exertion may have caused you some pang that might have been spared. I long to hear from you; though Miss Stebbins's letter brought me a good account from your physician about you. If tender wishes were but medicinal, if fervent aspirations could but cure, if my daily upward breathings in your behalf were but as powerful as they are earnest, --how perfect would be your state I have latterly been a shuttlecock betwixt two big battledores--New York and Florida. I scarcely dare to recall how many times I have been to and fro these two States in the last six weeks. It has been just move on, all the time: car dust, cinders, the fumes of hot axle grease, these have been my portion; and between them I have almost felt sometimes as if my soul would be asphyxiated. But I now cease to wander for a month, with inexpressible delight. To-morrow I leave here for Brooklyn, where I will be engaged in hard labor for a month, namely, in finishing up the Florida book.... I am very glad to find my " Symphony " copied in full in Dwight's "Journal of Music: " a...