Sidney Lanier

Retrospects and Prospects: Descriptive and Historical Essays Sidney Lanier

Prefatory Note The essays here republished were written at widely separated periods of the poets life, under different kinds of circumstances, and with no plan on his part that they should be gathered together in this or any analogous grouping. The sketch of San A ntonio, for instance, came into existence from no more elaborate prompting than the need to earn money with the literary materials of a picturesque city, to which Sidney Lanier was driven by dangerous weakness of the lungs. The article was offered to the Southern Magazine, and was published in it. The essay, The New South, was written for Scribner s Monthly, and the Sketches of India at the invitation of J. B. Lippincott and Company; the occasion of the Confederate Memorial Address is obvious. The opening essay, Retrospects and Prospects, had less definiteness of intention. It was composed at the age of twenty-five, the compelled overflow of a buoyant, strenuous soul.
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