i recall his theory as quite abstruse, with musical markings--i just
checked out my old notes and see that Lanier was more important for how
he influenced other prosodists than for the details of his own system.
he seems to have been one of the first to talk about actual rhythm,
thus called one of the first "new prosodists" as they were called at
the end of the 19th c. Big influence on t.s. Omond who of course wrote
one of the standard works....af
there are some rather delicious lines in "the marshes of glynn" if you
have the stomach for such decadently rolling passages
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