Music and Poetry: Essays Upon Some Aspects and Inter-Relations of the Two Arts

by Sidney Lanier

An informative and suggestive study. From Bacon to Beethoven The Orchestra of Today The Physics of Music Two Descriptive Orchestral The Ocean Symphony; Raid of the Vikings The Maryland Musical Festival The Centennial Cantata The Legend of St. Leonor Nature-Metaphors A Forgotten English Poet The Death of Byrhtnoth Chaucer and Shakespeare Review of Hayne's Poetry John Barbour's Bruce This title is cited and recommended Books for College Libraries and the Bibliography of American Literature.

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First published February 1, 2004

About the author

Sidney Clopton Lanier was an American musician, poet and author. As a poet he sometimes, though not exclusively, used dialects. Many of his poems are written in heightened, but often archaic, American English. He became a flutist and sold poems to publications. He eventually became a professor of literature at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and is known for his adaptation of musical meter to poetry. Many schools, other structures and two lakes are named for him.