Sidney Lanier
Sidney Clopton Lanier was an American musician, poet and author. He served in the Confederate States Army as a private, worked on a blockade-running ship for which he was imprisoned, taught, worked at a hotel where he gave musical performances, was a church organist, and worked as a lawyer. As a poet he sometimes used dialects.
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- Born in
- Macon
- Educated at
- Johns Hopkins UniversityOglethorpe University
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Trending topics shown first"On Poe - I esteem Poe more highly than my countrymen are wont to do . The trouble with him was, he did not KNOW enough. He needed to know a good many more things in order to be a great poet."
"'Daring with my poem 'Special Pleading' to give myself such freedom as I desired, in my own style'"
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1842
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Birth1881
Died
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