before reading Dr. Gates's essay on Lanier, and was delighted to find
my judgment confirmed by so competent a critic. Dr. Gates is quite emphatic:
"Since St. Francis, no soul has seemed so heavily overcharged
with this feeling of brotherhood for all created things."
`The Canticle of the Sun', otherwise known as `The Song of the Creatures',
may be found in metrical form in Mrs. Oliphant's life of St. Francis
(New York, 1870) and in prose in Sabatier's (Scribners, New York, 1894).

54. Lanier has an `Owl against Robin'.

57. See `Introduction', p. xli [Part IV].

80-85. See `Introduction', p. xliii [Part IV].

86-152. See `Introduction', p. xlvii [Part IV]. Mr. F. F. Browne says
that in lyric sweetness ll. 86-97 recall the best of Keats and Shelley.

114-115. See `Introduction', p. xliv [Part IV].

127. Lanier has a poem entitled `The Bee'.

134-136. See `Introduction', p. xliii [Part IV].

181. Compare Mrs. Easter's tribute, `Lit with the Sun'.

189-192. See `Introduction', p. xxi [Part I], and compare Cowdin's tribute,
`Hopeset and Sunrise', and the closing stanza of Hamlin Garland's:

"While heart's blood ebbed at every breath
He passed life's head-land bleak and dun,