. Sidney Lanier at Rockingham Springs; where and how the "Science of English verse" was written; a new chapter in American letters. me qualifi-cation as to the particular assertion that theScience of English Verse was begun atRockingham Springs; but in the main thestatement is accurate. The treatise was SIDNEY LANIER certainly put in written—perhaps final—form at the place and time , in view of the interest and sig-nificance of this treatise, the growing appre-ciation of Lanier, and the fact that nothingin detail has yet been published concerningthe activities and incidents
. Sidney Lanier at Rockingham Springs; where and how the "Science of English verse" was written; a new chapter in American letters. me qualifi-cation as to the particular assertion that theScience of English Verse was begun atRockingham Springs; but in the main thestatement is accurate. The treatise was SIDNEY LANIER certainly put in written—perhaps final—form at the place and time , in view of the interest and sig-nificance of this treatise, the growing appre-ciation of Lanier, and the fact that nothingin detail has yet been published concerningthe activities and incidents of that summersojourn in the mountains of Virginia, thesubjoined account is offered to students ofAmerican literature and to the generalreader. On February 3, 1879,—the day Lanierwas thirty-seven,—he received a letter fromPresident Daniel Coit Oilman notifying himof his appointment as lecturer on EnglishLiterature in Johns Hopkins recognition of his merit must havebrought keen joy to the soul of the poet andscholar, and have justified the faith he hadproved years before in turning from the law PAGE 14. AT ROCKINGHAM SPRINGS to letters. The appointment was not onlyan honor: it assured him of the first definiteincome he had enjoyed since his marriage,twelve years before. With faith justified,therefore, and with long-cherished hopessustained, he must have gone to his workthat year with strength renewed. In thelater days of July, or the very first days ofAugust, he quit the busy, heated city andwent, with his wife and younger children,to the quiet and shade of the we shall presently see him, at hiswork, in his leisure, and in the joy of hismaster passion. Rockingham Springs are located nearthe southwest end of the Massanutten Moun-tains, a straight narrow range that dividesthe Shenandoah Valley of Virginia for fiftymiles, beginning abruptly at Strasburg in PAGE 15 SIDNEY LANIER Shenandoah County, and ending just asabruptly at Harrisonburg, i
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