James Hampton Kirkland visited Italy, Paris, and London. Kirkland was appointed Professor of Latin at Vanderbilt University in 1886. Two of his colleagues were Baskervill and Smith, his former professors at Wofford. Another colleague was Milton W. Humphreys, a Confederate veteran who also received a PhD from the University of Leipzig. Two more colleagues had also studied at the University of Leipzig: Waller Deering and Alexander R. Hohlfeld. He edited the works of Horace, a Roman lyric poet in a collection entitled "Horace: Satires and Epistles", which he published in 1893. Meanwhile, Kirkland was appointed as chancellor in 1893. He was only thirty-three
Paul Fleming (poet) contains many notable love-songs. Fleming wrote in Latin as well as in German, and his Latin poems were published in a single volume in 1863, edited by Johann Martin Lappenberg. Fleming has been called a man of "real poetic genius", "the only good poet in Germany during the Thirty Years' War", "possibly the greatest German lyric poet of the seventeenth century" and "the German Herrick". Günter Grass has called him "one of the major figures in German seventeenth-century literature". Fleming wrote the hymn in nine stanzas "" (In all that I do) on the melody of "" by Heinrich Isaac,