Lanier remained part of the standard curriculum in the US into the 40s as
one of the very few Civil War generation southern poets. There's a statue
of him at the entrance to the campus of my alma mater, Johns Hopkins, where
he taught.
Mark
At 11:04 AM 8/30/2005, you wrote:
>Well, for me, at any rate, that's more than enough Lanier.
>
>Thanks Mark (I guess).
>
>I think I understand why most of us don't know much about him or his work.
>
>Doug
>On 26-Aug-05, at 8:21 AM, Mark Weiss wrote:
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>>For the uninitiated, here's one of Lanier's two most famous poems. I'm
>>not crazy about it, but the other, The Marshes of Glynn, is unbearable.
>Douglas Barbour
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