![Marshes of Glynn, Brunswick, Georgia, USA](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Marshes_of_Glynn%2C_Brunswick%2C_Georgia%2C_USA.jpg)
"The Marshes of Glynn" is one of
Sidney Lanier
Sidney Clopton Lanier (February 3, 1842 – September 7, 1881) was an American musician, poet and author. He served in the Confederate States Army as a private, worked on a blockade-running ship for which he was imprisoned (resulting in his catch ...
's poems featured in ''Hymns of the Marshes'', an unfinished set of lyrical nature poems that describe the open
salt marsh
A salt marsh or saltmarsh, also known as a coastal salt marsh or a tidal marsh, is a coastal ecosystem in the upper coastal intertidal zone between land and open saltwater or brackish water that is regularly flooded by the tides. It is dominated ...
es of
Glynn County in coastal
Georgia
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. While some believe the poem was written while Lanier was visiting the area in 1875, there is speculation that the majority was written in Baltimore during 1878 as part of an entry for the novel ''
A Masque of Poets
''A Masque of Poets'' is an 1878 book of poetry published in the United States. The book included several poems, all published anonymously, including one by Emily Dickinson. Names were not included in the compilation so that the original works cou ...
''; a collection of works from various artists.
Although ''A masque of Poets'' received poor reviews from readers, ''The Marshes of Glynn'' was considered by critics to be one of the better entries of the book.
See also
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Glynn County, Georgia
Glynn County is located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 79,626. The county seat is Brunswick. Glynn County is part of the Brunswick, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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for information about the setting of ''The Marshes of Glynn''.
References
External links
''Hymns of the Marshes''which includes "The Marshes of Glynn"
Sidney Lanier biographyat the New Georgia Encyclopedia
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American poems
Glynn County, Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state) in fiction
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