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A Study of Lanier's Poems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Charles W. Kent*
Affiliation:
University of Tennessee

Extract

A Two themes welded in perfect harmony will tell the story of our poet's life, music and love. Music-born with him, descending to him by a long line of inheritance, his life-long passion; love, broad, catholic and unfathomable, the source of his real living and the key note of his character. Love, the core of his inmost being, the very marrow of his daily thought. Music, the flower of his daily life and the fittest utterance of his secret soul. By good right, too, could he lay claim to the gift of music. In the days of good Queen Bess, one Jerome Lanier, a Huguenot refugee had been kindly received in England and he repaid this kindness by giving to England's sovereign his talents and by bequeathing to her successors, James I. and the First Charles, the talents of his gifted son, Nicholas.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1892

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References

page 35 note 1 It is unnecessary to say to those who have read Ward's Introduction to Scribner's ‘Edition of Lanier's Poems,’ that the brief biographical sketch, which I have felt it necessary to insert here as an essential prelude to my paper, isa digest of that graceful memorial. I acknowledge explicitly and with gladness a debt, which, it is too apparent, I cannot repay.

page 48 note 2 Page refers to Scribner's Edition of Lanier's Poems, and the date to the year in which the poem was written.