Sidney Lanier (1861-1865)
Sidney Lanier (1842-1881) was born in Macon, Georgia. and graduated from Oglethorpe College in 1860. He served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War (1861-1865) and spent four months in a prison camp. Lanier returned to Macon after the war, penniless and in poor health. He suffered from tuberculosis for the rest of his life. In 1867, he published his only novel, Tiger-Lilies, an account of his war experiences. He became famous for his poems about the beauty of the South. Lanier's works also include children's poems and books on English literature. He was also an accomplished musician, and was first flutist of the Peabody Orchestra, Baltimore, in 1873. Following his appointment as lecturer on English literature at Johns Hopkins, his study of the interrelation of music and poetry was published as The Science of English Verse (1880). His Poems appeared in 1887
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