...Thomas G. Dyer Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 The Kian on Campus: C. Lewis Fowler and Lanier University Thomas G. Dyer On September 10, 1921, the Knights of the Ku Klux Kian announced from their plush national headquarters on Peachtree Street in Atlanta, Georgia, that they had...

...Lewis Leary Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 THE FORLORN HOPE OF SIDNEY LANIER* LEWIS LEARY JUST A LITTLE more than ten years ago three prominent Southern poets set upon Sidney Lanier with vehemence which might be supposed to have silenced him and his disciples forever. His...

...Frank W. Cady Copyright © 1914 by Duke University Press 1914 Sidney Lanier Frank W. Cady Assistant Professor of English in Middlebury College. Immaturity is the key to any analysis of the work of Sidney Lanier. Yet, in using that word as descriptive of the poet, one must safeguard himself...

...Henry E. Harman Copyright © 1915 by Duke University Press 1915 Volume XIV OCTOBER, 191 £ Number 4 The South Atlantic Quarterly Sidney Lanier A Study Henry E. Harman Author of A Bar of Song All day my soul hath been cutting swiftly into the great space of the subtle, unspeakable deep...

...William Preston Few, Ph. D. Copyright © 1903 by Duke University Press 1903 Sidney Lanier as a Student of English Literature By William Preston Few, Ph. D., Professor of English in Trinity College There has recently come from the press of Doubleday, Page & Co. a work by Sidney Lanier, in two...

...Daniel Coit Gilman Copyright © 1905 by Duke University Press 1905 Sidney Lanier: Reminiscences and Letters By Daniel Coit Gilman, Ex-President of Johns Hopkins University Five years before his death, to the surprise of many, Sidney Lanier was selected as the poet who should write a cantata...

...Henry E. Harman, Litt. D. Copyright © 1918 by Duke University Press 1918 A Study-of Sidney Lanier s The Symphony Henry E. Harman, Litt. D. Author of Idle Dreams of an Idle Day, etc- To have handled one subject with such consummate skill, to have chosen that subject from the material...

... to writer. Be­ sides the New England tradition, there is the ill-fated Charleston tradition of the southeast that, reaching out into Georgia, in­ cluded Sidney Lanier and then died at the verge of maturity. But there have been few if any other such traditions, few local or particularist schools of letters...

...William A. Webb Copyright © 1903 by Duke University Press 1903 Southern Poetry: 1849-1881 By William A. Webb, Professor of English in Central College, Missouri In tracing the history of Southern poetry from the death of Poe in 1849 to the death of Lanier in 1881, I shall discuss a group...

... that age means nothing in art Miss Andrews published in the Boston Literary World a poetical tribute to Lanier. It was not her first published poem (that appeared in Puck or Life, when Miss Andrews was just turned fifteen), but it was one by which the present writer remembered her name when Melissa Starke...

.... George Rathborne. All the following letters save one are hurried notes addressed from New York to Henry Wysham Lanier, a son of the poet Sidney Lanier, who was at the time secretary to O. Henry s book publishers, Doubleday, Page and Company. In the course of read­ ing them one will note that Porter had...

..., as well as to those interested pri­ marily in Mississippi. Its worth is far greater than the limited length of this review might indicate. Wm. K. Boyd. Sidney Lanier s fame as a poet will rest largely on his series of Hymns of the Marshes, and especially on the title poem which is surely one...

.... A. Christian, and Mary Newton Stanard. David K. Jackson. A NEW ESTIMATE OF LANIER Sidney Lanier: A Biographical and Critical Study. By Aubrey Harrison Starke. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 1933. Pp. xvi, 525. $5.00. One of the few good biographies of Southern writers...

... with his lack of appreciation of many of his contemporaries. He was totally unsympathetic towards Whitman and Lanier; he did but scant justice to Kipling and Stevenson. He lamented, too, the tendency towards vulgariza­ tion of English: at a time when it is supposed to be poetical to write Gawd instead...

... be sure that he is not right. E. M. Sidney Lanier. By Henry Nelson Snyder. New York: Eaton & Mains, 1907,-132 pp. President Snyder, of Wolford College, has made in this volume a sympathetic and vital interpretation of Lanier as a man and as a poet. It is not a biography, though the first chapter is prob­...

... the author as does a group composed of, for example, Whistler, Lamb, and Lanier. Some lives are studded thick with the jewels of self­ revelation. The souls of most men, however, are hard' to get at. Letters, Mr. Bradford believes, afford the best clue to the labyrinth of souls. In them the surface...

... on his mind, though he accepted the con­ ventional view that it was a disaster for the South.79 His views on the Southern literary past were more distinctive. His biography of Sidney Lanier put rather more emphasis upon Lanier the New South prophet than Lanier the Confederate soldier.80...

..., worthy of mention in the same breath with the names of Bryant, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Poe, Holmes, Whitman, Lowell, and Lanier? In this connection, permit me to suggest that history has not yet had time to fix the ultimate standing of such names as Stedman, Aldrich, Stoddard, Gilder, Hovey...

... Company, 1904, 368 pp. Since Lanier s Science of English Verse appeared inl880, there has been much discussion of the formal element in English poetry. Such study cannot, as Lanier said years ago, take the place of the more vital appreciation of poetry, but it may be a means to that end. Technical...

... is kept in mind, and when one remembers his treatment of other authors, it is not a matter of surprise that Lanier is dismissed with a sentence, Hayne and Timrod with clauses, and that Cable and Harris are not alluded to. He compares Timrod to the whippoorwill a thin, pathetic twilight note. He would...