. >A Brief Sketch of The Life and Writings of Sidney Lanier

An Address delivered before the Georgia Historical Society at Savannah on the 5th of December, 1887
Published for the Society
Author: Charles N. West
Dated: 1888
Publisher: Townsend
Edition: 1st
Size: 8vo
Binding Trade Wraps
Type: History - American
Notes & Literature Sidney Clopton Lanier (February 3, 1842 ? September 7, 1881) was an American musician, poet and author. He served in the Confederate States Army as a private[2], worked on a blockade-running ship for which he was imprisoned (resulting in his catching tuberculosis), taught, worked at a hotel where he gave musical performances, was a church organist, and worked as a lawyer. As a poet he sometimes, though not exclusively, used dialects. Many of his poems are written in heightened, but often archaic, American English. He became a flautist and sold poems to publications. He eventually became a professor of literature at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and is known for his adaptation of musical meter to poetry. Many schools, other structures and two lakes are named for him, and he became hailed in the South as the "poet of the Confederacy"
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