On Swinburne - He invited me to eat; the service was silver… - Sidney Lanier

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On Swinburne - He invited me to eat; the service was silver and gold, but no food therein save pepper and salt.

Sidney Lanier

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Sidney Lanier (February 3, 1842 – July 7, 1881) was an American poet, novelist and musician. Lanier died from complications of tuberculosis; aged thirty-nine.

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Alternative Names: Sidney Clopton Lanier

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Alfred Tennyson John Keats William Wordsworth Walt Whitman

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On Whitman - His poetry refreshed me like harsh salt spray.

On Poe - I esteem Poe more highly than my countrymen are wont to do . The trouble with him (Poe) was, he did not KNOW enough. He needed to know a good many more things in order to be a great poet.

And yet shall Love himself be heard,
Though long deferred, though long deferred:
O'er the modern waste a dove hath whirred:
Music is Love in search of a word.

On Swinburne - He invited me to eat; the service was silver and gold, but no food therein save pepper and salt. - Sidney Lanier

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