Daring with my poem 'Special Pleading' to give myself such … - Sidney Lanier

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Daring with my poem 'Special Pleading' to give myself such freedom as I desired, in my own style

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 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.

Music means harmony, harmony means love. Love means God.

Daring with my poem 'Special Pleading' to give myself such freedom as I desired, in my own style - Sidney Lanier

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