LANIER, Sidney; [Henry Wysham Lanier, ed.]

Music and Poetry: Essays Upon Some Aspects and Inter-Relations of the Two Arts

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Green cloth, titled in gilt on spine; [vi],248pp. Sound but rubbed, with losses at head and tail, front hinge cracked: Good.

Posthumous essay collection. Lanier (1842-1881) was a Georgian poet, musician, and professor of literature at Johns Hopkins, known for his innovative theoretical connections between poetry and music. "Lanier’s verse is unique in American literature as the only poetry whose musical qualities come from direct, practical, artistic experience" (ANB). BAL 11276.

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