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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:A Poet's Musical ImpressionsThe following letters, with the exception of the first one, were written by Mr. Lanier to his wife between April, 1869, and May, 1876, in his absences from home while at Baltimore, New York, and San Antonio. The selections have been made with the view of including practically all the correspondence which treats of musical subjects, and in pursuance of this idea a number of fragmentary extracts are presented. The opening letters represent Mr. Lanier's first impressions of really great orchestral music; there being no facilities at that time for hearing the best music in his native town. They show also something of the eager suspense which he was feeling at the time. His strongest impulse was always toward music, and his friends had assured him of his ability; but his formal instruction had been limited to a few piano lessons in early childhood, and he was now for the first time meeting with musicians of recognized standing, and, as it were, authoritatively placing himself. Until he received the opinion of those whom he knew to be competent to speak finally, he did not even feel sure that he had a right to follow the promptings of his music longings.Montgomery, Ala., October, 1866.. . . She is right to cultivate Music, to cling to it: it is the only reality left in the world for her and many another like her. It will revolutionize the world, and that not long hence. Let her study it intensely, giveSherself to it, enter the very innermost temple and Sanctuary of it. ... The Altar-steps are wide enough for all the world, and Music inquires not if the worshipper be Vestal or Stained, nor looks to see what dust of other shrines is upon the knees that bend before her. She is utterly unconscious of aught but Love, which pardons all things an... ... Read more

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INSIDE THE WORLD OF THE SOUTH'S GREATEST POET
MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER WAS SIDNEY LANIER'S SISTER
GERTRUDE LANIER GIBSON , SO I'M AN INSIDER ON THIS
AND VERY TUNED IN TO HIS GENIOUS .HIS LETTERS ARE
SNAPSHOTS IN THE LIFE OF A BRILLIANT , BRAVE ,
OBSERVANT MAN , CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF STRANGE
TIMES .IF YOU ARE A FAN OF HIS WORK & WONDER WHAT
HIS TAKE ON THE ART OF POETRY & MUSIC WAS,THIS IS
A MUST FOR YOUR LIBRARY .SOME READERS MAY NOT BE
AWARE THAT THE LANIER FAMILY WAS REVERED FOR MANY
GENERATIONS AS MUSICIANS ,SCIENTISTS,POETS & ART
COLLECTORS FOR ROYALTY WAY BACK INTO FRANCE & THEY
WERE QUITE ACTIVE & WELL RESPECTED IN THE COURTS OF
THREE KINGS OF ENGLAND ; THEY ALSO WERE VITAL TO
COLONIAL AMERICA IN THE ART OF ART .THE ENGLISH CROWN
SO TRUSTED THE LANIERS THAT SOME WERE SENT TO ITALY
& ELSEWHERE TO BUY PAINTINGS THAT NOW HANG IN ENGLISH
PALACES & MUSEUMS . SIDNEY'S GENETICALLY ADVANCED &
WELL STUDIED NATURE RINGS OUT IN THESE REVEALING
LETTERS . SADLY , THOUGH HE WAS PUBLISHED IN HIS TIME ,
& ENDEARED TO EUROPEAN POETS OF HIGH REGARD ,HIS
PLACE AMONG THE "BEST OF THE BEST" POETS WAS NOT TO BE IN
HIS LIFETIME . THE FACT HE WAS A "REBEL" (OR SOMEONE
FROM THE SOUTH FOR INTERNATIONAL READERS) MADE THE
NORTH-DRIVEN PUBLISHERS AND POETS BIASED AND BLIND
TO HIS KNACK FOR CAPTURING A GLIMPSE OF NATURE OR
A MOMENT OF GLORY OR PAIN IN RAPTURE AND AWE .TO READ
HIS BIOGRAPHY IS FASCINATING BUT THESE LETTERS SHOW
A VULNERABLE , SENSITIVE , LOVING PERSON STRUGGLING
TO MAKE SENSE OUT OF A WORLD IN FULL TILT ; HIS ESSAYS
AND POEMS ARE STELLAR. HE ALSO SERVED IN THE ARMY
OF GENERAL LEE WITH CLIFFORD(HIS DEVOTED BROTHER)IN
THE SIGNAL CORPS & ULTIMATELY WAS CAPTURED & IMPRISONED
IN A NORTHERN CAMP WHERE HE GOT TUBERCULOSIS .I AM
CONTINUING HIS LEGACY AS A POET,SINGER/SONGWRITER,
MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST IN ALABAMA & HAVE BEEN WIDELY
PUBLISHED MYSELF AS JAMES HARDIE MCGEHEE,THE SON OF
GERTRUDE LANIER GIBSON MCGEHEE(HIS BELOVED SISTER'S
GRANDDAUGHTER) AND THESE LETTERS ARE MORE THAN INTER-
ESTING TO ME , THEY ARE FAMILY HISTORY AND THEY HONOR
HIM IN THE BIG LIGHT HE SO EARNESTLY DESERVES.-HARDIE ... Read more

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William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (UCLA)

T132371

Titlepage in red and black.The text of pp.306 & 307 has been transposed.

Londini : ex officinâ Jacobi & Richardi Tonson, & Johannis Watts, 1741. [24],360,[10]p. : ill. ; 12° ... Read more