`Sonnet xxxiii'. —
3, 13-14. See `Introduction', p. xxxii [Part III], and compare l. 26.
39-53. See `Introduction', p. xxxiii [Part III].
42. I had made the comparison between Lanier and St. Francis 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'.