. Sidney Lanier at Rockingham Springs; where and how the "Science of English verse" was written; a new chapter in American letters. Stonewall Jacksons Headquarters at Port Republic Confluence of the Rivers, the Bridge, and the Heights toward Cross Keys. AT ROCKINGHAM SPRINGS myself, ... I have been working onthem for two months; in two more they willbe finished; and by the middle of NovemberI hope to have them ready for use astextbooks.* This letter evidently was written with thework at Johns Hopkins still in prospect, butnear at hand. Also, it was written only afew days before the La
. Sidney Lanier at Rockingham Springs; where and how the "Science of English verse" was written; a new chapter in American letters. Stonewall Jacksons Headquarters at Port Republic Confluence of the Rivers, the Bridge, and the Heights toward Cross Keys. AT ROCKINGHAM SPRINGS myself, ... I have been working onthem for two months; in two more they willbe finished; and by the middle of NovemberI hope to have them ready for use astextbooks.* This letter evidently was written with thework at Johns Hopkins still in prospect, butnear at hand. Also, it was written only afew days before the Laniers left Baltimorefor Rockingham Springs. The six weeks atthe Springs, therefore, covering the periodfrom late July to early September, made upmost of the two more months in which thethree books were to be finished, and inwhich, as already seen, the Science ofEnglish Verse was finished. Accordingly,when Lanier came to the Springs he musthave had in mind or in hand, probably inmore or less fragmentary notes, the bulk of 4-See Edwin Mims Sidney Lanier, pages255, 256. PAGE 29 SIDNEY LANIER the matter used in the Science of Verse;but in the six weeks spent there he wrote
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