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Feb 03, 1842 Macon, Georgia, United States Died on 07 Sep 1881 (aged 39)
American musician, poet
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About Sidney Lanier
- 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, 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".
- A 1972 US postage stamp honored him as an "American poet".
