16-19; life in Macon, 19-23; early schools, 23; fondness for music and books, 24, 25; at Oglethorpe University, 26– 41; influence of Dr. Woodrow, 28-30; of comrades, 32; vaca- tion at Montvale Springs, Tenn., 35-37; tutor in Greek, 38; plans to go to Heidelberg, 39; catches war fever and joins Macon Volunteers, 42-48; at Norfolk, 48; in battles around Richmond, 48, 49; at Peters- burg, 49; vacation in Macon, 52, 53; as scout at Fort Boy- kin reads German poetry and begins "Tiger Lilies," 54-56, 84; captured on blockade-run- ner at Wilmington, N. C., 57; and taken to Point Lookout Prison, 58-60; rescue from death, 60; after illness in Ma- con, goes to Point Clear on Mobile Bay, 64; hotel clerk at Exchange Hotel, Montgom- ery, Alabama, 64-78; resumes literary work, 74; goes to New York with "Tiger Lil- ies," 78; teaches school at Prattville, Alabama, 91-97; suffers from reconstruction governments, 91-95; marriage, 93; practices law at Macon, delivers Confederate
99; Memorial address, 103; goes to Alleghany Springs, Virgi- nia, 112, to New York, 114, to San Antonio, 117; resolves to give the remainder of his life to music and poetry, 120-126; goes to New York to study music, 129; first flute in Pea- body Orchestra in Baltimore, 130; popularity in Baltimore, 135; on a visit to Georgia writes "Corn," 153; at work on other poems, and books,
161-165; appointed to write a cantata for the opening of Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, 166; publishes first volume of poems, 181; meets wider circle of literary men and women, 181; visit to Boston, 190; attends Century Club and Goethe celebration, 192; moves family to Chadd's Ford, Pa., 194; goes to Florida for health, 195, 196; seeks in vain for government position in Washington, 198, 199; settles with family in Baltimore, 200; at work in Peabody Library on English literature, 202; lectures at the Peabody Institute, 206- 210; appointed lecturer at Johns Hopkins University,
233; writes article on the "New South," 264; last ill- ness begins, 321; birth of fourth son at West Chester, Pa., 322; lectures at Johns Hopkins, 328-330; goes to New York, 330; to Asheville, N. C., 331; death, 335; burial in Baltimore, 336; memorial exercises at Johns Hopkins University, 337-338. Characteristics: physical ap- pearance, 190 (Lowell), 193 (Stedman), 300 (Wysham), 301 (Gilman; humor, 21, 32, 33, 79, 80, 100, 200, 204, 310, 311; buoyancy of spirit, 4-7, 96, 322, 323; lack of Bo- hemianism, 18, 301, 302, 307; knightliness and chivalry, 54, 158, 309; capacity for hard work, 129-130, 134, 163, 187, 211, 238; capacity for friendship, 302-307; fondness for children, 79, 80, 303, 307; love of nature, 18, 19, 37, 112-114, 224-226; pu-
rity of life, 59, 60, 162; rever- ence for science, 28, 29, 138, 232, 312-317, 333, 334 (see also Darwin, Gilman, Kirk); enthu- siasm for literature, 32-34, 108- 110, 205, 211, 212, 350 (see also Elizabethan poetry and old English); as a scholar, 7, 34, 238-250; as teacher, 258-260; as critic, 344-366; as poet, 360- 375; as musician, 24, 31, 32, 38, 55, 58, 59, 74, 86, 115-117, 120- 123, chapter vi; his national spirit, 175-181; his religious faith, 6, 17, 22, 23, 27, 28, 87, 145, 317-319, 326; inheritor of un- fulfilled renown, 3, 341, 342. Works: A Birthday Song, 76; A Florida Ghost, 310; A Flor- ida Sunday, 197, 368; Acknow- ledgment, 364; An Evening Song, 197, 368, 369 (quoted); Baby Charley, 100, 307; Ballad of Trees and Master (quoted), 318, 368; Barnacles, 76; Be- trayal, 368; Bob, 307; Boy's Froissart, The, 326; Boy's King Arthur, The, 109, 326-328; Boy's Mabinogion, The, 326, 332; Boy's Percy, The, 326; Cantata, the Centennial, 166- 176, 291; Clover, 360, 367, 369, 370; Confederate Memorial Address, 103-106, 344; Corn, 153-157, 181, 183, 268, 364, 366; Crystal, The, 318, 347, 370; English Novel, The, 294, 314, 315, 322, 328-330, 344, 351, 352, 360; Florida, 36 (note), 164- 166, 187; From Bacon to Bee- thoven, 140, 344; From the Flats, 197, 368, 369; Hard Times in Elfland, 307; Harlequin of Dreams, The, 368; How Love looked for Hell, 368; In Ab- sence, 307; In the Foam, 76 (note); India, Sketches of, 163;
Individuality, 360, 368; Jac- querie, The, 38, 101, 118, 158, 159; Laughter in the Senate, 76 (note), 92, 93 (quoted); Laus Mariae, 307; Legend of St. Leonor, The, 315; Life and Song, 76, 370; Marsh Song at Sunset, 364; Marshes of Glynn, The, 3, 320, 322, 324, 363, 370-375; Mazzini on Music, 145-147; Mocking - Bird, The, 197, 368; Modern Orchestra, The, 140; Music and Poetry, 172, 217; My Springs, 97, 98, 307, 368; Nature - Metaphors, 96; New South, The, 157, 264- 272, 344; Night and Day, 368; Nirvana, 108, 368; Ode to Johns Hopkins University, The, 230, 234, 236, 238; Opposition, 128, 368; Orchestra of To-day, 344; Power of Prayer, The, 185, 186; Psalm of the West, The, 176-178, 181,360, 366, 369; Raven Days, 93; Remonstrance, 364; Retrospects and Prospects (essay), 19, 70-72, 94, 96, 344; Retrospects and Prospects (book), 103-106, 117-122, 264- 272; Revenge of Hamish, The, 368; San Antonio de Bexar, 117-122, 344; Science of Eng- lish Verse, The, 3, 239, 249, 320, 329, 337, 352-359; Shakspere and His Forerunners, 98, 210- 228, 243-245, 351, 352; Song of the Chattahoochee, The, 197, 368; Special Pleading, 367; Steel in Soft Hands, 93; Stir- rup-Cup, The, 197, 368; Sun- rise, 322, 336, 363, 365-367; Sym- phony, The, 158-163, 181, 185, 187, 368; Tampa Robins, 197; Tiger Lites, 35-37, 43, 44, 55, 57, 58, 72, 74, 78, 80-89, 143, 144, 312, 344; Tyranny, 76, 93; Un- der the Cedarcroft Chestnut,
197; Waving of the Corn, 197, | Marlowe, 223.
Lanier, Sterling (grandfather), 14, 21, 35, 67.
Lanier, Thomas, 12, 13.
Mazzini, Essay on Music," Lanier's opinion of, 147. Michelet, History of France,
Le Conte, Joseph, 21, 96, 241, Milledgeville, Ga., 26, 42, 43. 282.
Lee, Robert E., 72, 90, 103, 150, 278, 282; Lanier's description of, at Petersburg, 49-52; La- nier's tribute to, in Confeder- ate Memorial Address, 104. Lessing, 56. Lincoln, Abraham, 89, 90, 95, 275. 'Lippincott's
Magazine," 41 (note), 65 (note), 155, 163, 176, 183, 302.
Longfellow, Henry W., Lanier's visit to, 190; Lanier compared with, 39, 86, 144, 212, 261, 286, 340, 358. Lowell, James Russell, visit of Lanier to and characterization of Lanier by, 190; compared with Lanier, 144, 179, 181, 190, 211, 212, 237, 238, 261, 313, 337, 340, 344, 345, 364; referred to, 286, 347, 348.
Montgomery, Ala., Lanier set- tles in, 64, 73; life there after the war, 65-66; Lanier leaves,
Milton, John, 127, 162, 357, 359, 363.
More, Paul Elmer, 354 (note),
Morgan, Senator John P., 180, 265. Morris, William, Lanier's opin- ion of, 348-350. Mozart, 140.
Music in America, future of, 145-147.
Negro, the, progress of race after the war, 270, 271; effect of reconstruction on, 274, 275; the liberal sentiment of the South in regard to, 270, 278. Newell, T. F., reminiscences of Lanier, 32-34.
Lucretius, Lanier's interest in, New Shakespeare Society, The,
Macaulay, 12, 312.
Machen, Mrs. Arthur W., re- miniscences of Lanier, 228-
Macon, Ga., 92, 115, 124, 156, 162, 195; natural beauty and cli- mate, 19; life in, 19-24; public spirit, 20; slavery in, 20 (note); excitement at outbreak of war, 42, 43; Volunteers, 47, 48; in 1863, 52; after the war, 63; cemetery, 103.
Malory, Sir Thomas, 109, 366. Mark Twain, influence on South- ern writers, 283.
New York city, 153, 163, 183, 187, 340; Lanier's first visit to, in 1867, 78; later visits, 114-117; concerts at Central Park, 116; Lanier goes to in 1873, 129. North Carolina, Lanier's ances- tors live in, 14; Lanier at Wilmington, 48, 57; dies in the mountains of, 334. Norton, Charles Eliot, 237, 238. Northrup, Milton H., reminis
cences of Lanier, 39-41; letters of Lanier to, 64, 66, 88, 91, 100. Oglethorpe University, its his- tory, faculty, and students, 26-30; faculty and students
go to war, 47; closes after | Raleigh, Sir Walter, Lanier's the war, 68; Lanier's view of,
Old English, Lanier's idea of the study of, 213-218, 243,
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 118. Page, Thomas Nelson, 285, 288. Park, John, reminiscences of Lanier, 205.
Payne, William Morton, opin-
ion of Lanier as critic, 344. Peabody, George, 202, 203, 230. Peabody Institute, 130, 139, 206, 210, 229, 233, 337.
Peabody Library, 7, 10, 138, 236, 238; its value as a research library and its influence on Lanier, 202-205.
opinion of, 188, 218.
Randall, J. R., "Maryland, My Maryland," 44, 173; 293. Rhodes, James Ford, History of the United States, 68 (note).
Peabody Orchestra, 135, 141, 152, Schiller, 56. 173, 200, 204. Peacock, Gibson, 159, 165, 168, 182, 186; his great kindness to Lanier, 195; letters from Lanier to, 195, 198, 200, 206, 250.
Peacock, Mrs. Gibson, 182, 201. Pepys, Samuel, account of the
music-loving Laniers, 11. Philadelphia, 163, 182, 186, 195, 208, 209.
Poe, Edgar Allan, 2, 3, 173, 281, 292, 311, 313, 336, 340, 342, 344, 357, 358, 359, 363, 371. Point Lookout, Md., Lanier con- fined in prison at, 58-59. Pope, Alexander, Lanier's opin- ion of, 346,
Pratt, Waldo S., reminiscences
of Lanier as a teacher, 7, 258- 260; account of Lanier's last visit to New York, 330. Prattville, Ala., Lanier teaches
school at, 91; condition of during reconstruction, 94. Preston, Margaret J., 281, 285. Price, Thomas R., 39, 261, 281.
Schumann, Robert, 24, 140; La- nier's estimate of his charac- ter and his music, 148-151. Scott, Sir Walter, 16, 24, 298. "Scott's Monthly," 280. Scribner, Charles, letters of La- nier to, 239, 326-328.
Scribner's Monthly," 186, 268, 284, 285, 295. Shakespeare, 109, 127, 150, 193, 355, 318; Lanier's lectures on, 206-210, 220-229; Lanier's view of metrical tests as applied to Shakespeare, 221, 222, 243; the moral height of, as com- pared with other Elizabethan dramatists, 223-224; the value of studying him as a whole, 246-248.
Shelley, 3, 34, 50, 318, 351; La-
nier's characterization of, 348. Sidney, Sir Philip, 218, 293, 309, 351.
Sill, Edward Rowland, 78 (note); opinion of Lanier's Science of English Verse,"
Simms, William Gilmore, 68, 78 | Tabb, John B., letter about La-
(note), 107, 282, 283. South, The, Lanier's inherit- ance from the, 8, 91, 126, 297; what he means to the, 8, 298- 299; denominational colleges in, 26, 27; Lanier's view of the social life of the Old South, 35, 36; war fever in, 43-47; effect of war on, 45, 65–73; re- construction in, 89-96, 113, 274, 275; in 1873, 123; in 1874, 156; in 1885, 279; Lanier's in- terest in, 264-267; the conser- vative leader in, 272-275; the progressive leader in, 275–279; literature in, 279-291; Lanier's relation to Southern literature, 291-297; see also civil war, Georgia, Macon.
South Atlantic Quarterly," quoted from, 173, 301, 331. "Southern Magazine, The," 118, 280, 289, 292; Lanier contri- butes to, 282. "Southern Review, The," 280. Spann, Miss Minnie, reminis-
cences of Lanier, 334-335. Stebbins, Miss Emma, friend of Charlotte Cushman, 183, 186, 190, 194.
Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 2, 75; describes Lanier, 193; let- ter to Dr. Gilman about La- nier, 262.
Stephens, Alexander H., 44, 73, 277, 282.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 211, 311.
Stoddard, Richard Henry, 75, 183.
nier's life in prison, 59; La. nier's influence on, 294; his opinion of a fragment of La- nier's poetry, 334; his appear- ance at Johns Hopkins me- morial exercises, 338.
Talmage, Rev. Samuel K., 27. "Tannhäuser," Lanier's inter- pretation of, 116.
Taylor, Bayard, 159, 182, 192, 199; has Lanier appointed to write the Centennial Cantata, 166; introduces him to men of letters at Century Club and at Goethe celebration, 192; Lanier writes to, 65, 166, 167, 176, 192, 205.
Tennyson, Alfred, 33, 34, 186, 188, 251, 312, 338, 347, 357, 366. Thackeray, W. M., 53, 224, 299; Lanier's opinion of, 346. Thomas, Edith, poem on La- nier, 338.
Thomas, Theodore, 115-117, 129,
130, 134, 137, 144, 340; offers Lanier place in Orchestra, 133; Lanier's description of, as conductor, 140; his opinion of the Centennial poem, 166. Thompson, Maurice, 44, 68, 96, 285, 286, 299.
Timrod, Henry, 44, 45, 107, 283; Lanier's opinion of, 293. Turnbull, Lawrence, 280, 281, 336.
Turnbull, Mrs. Lawrence, poem on Lanier, 304; Mme. Blanc's description of her home, 304- 307; Lanier buried on lot in Greenmount Cemetery, 336.
Sumner, Charles, 46; Lamar's Tweed, Lanier's opinion of, 115. speech on, 180.
Swinburne, A. C., 247, 248, 341, University of Virginia, 179, 273,
Sylvester, J. J., 353; Lanier's
characterization of, 236.
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