Sidney Lanier

Sidney Lanier was born in 1842 in Macon, Georgia, the son of a lawyer. A graduate of Oglethorpe in 1860, he enlisted the following year in the Confederate army, served in signals and then on a blockade runner, was captured in 1864 and left Point Lookout prison suffering from tuberculosis. A hotel clerk, organist, then partner in his father's law firm, he became first flautist of the Peabody orchestra in Baltimore. Appointed lecturer in English literature at Johns Hopkins in 1879, he died in Lynn, North Carolina, in 1881.

In the catalogue 1

• PoetryThe Marshes of GlynnSidney Lanier · 1878LiteraturePublic domain