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LANIER, SIDNEY (1842–1881)

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LANIER, SIDNEY (1842–1881)

LANIER, See also:
SIDNEY
SIDNEY (or SYDNEY), ALGERNON (1622-1683)
SIDNEY, SIR HENRY (1529-1586)
SIDNEY, SIR PHILIP (1554-1586)
SIDNEY (1842–1881) , See also:

AMERICAN

American poet, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

Macon, See also:

GEORGIA

Georgia, on the 3rd of See also:

FEBRUARY

February 1842. He was of Huguenot descent on his See also:

FATHER

father's See also:

side, and of Scottish and Virginian on his See also:

MOTHER

mother's. From childhood he was passionately fond of See also:

MUSIC

music. His subsequent mastery of the See also:

FLUTE

flute helped to support him and greatly increased his reputation. At the See also:

AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of fourteen he entered See also:

OGLETHORPE, JAMES EDWARD (1696—1785)

Oglethorpe See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, where, after graduating with distinction, he held a tutorship. He enlisted in the See also:

Con-federate See also:

army in See also:

APRIL

April 1861, serving first in See also:

Virginia, and finding opportunities to continue his studies. After the Seven Days' battles around See also:

Richmond, he was transferred to the See also:

SIGNAL

signal service. About this See also:

time the first symptoms of See also:

CONSUMPTION (Lat. consumere)

consumption appeared. He subsequently served in a See also:

blockade-runner, but his See also:

VESSEL (O. Fr. vaissel, from a rare Lat. vascellum, dim. of vas, vase, urn)

vessel was captured, and he was confined for five months in a Federal See also:

PRISON (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. prehensio, seizure)

prison, his flute proving the best of companions. Exchanged See also:

early in 1865, he started See also:

home on See also:

FOOT

foot, arriving in a See also:

state of exhaustion that led to a severe illness. In 1867 he visited New See also:

York in connexion with his novel See also:

Tiger Lilies—an immature See also:

WORK

work, dealing in See also:

PART

part with his See also:

war experiences, and now difficult to obtain. Later in the same See also:

YEAR

year he took See also:

charge of a See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country school in See also:

ALABAMA

Alabama, and was married to See also:

MISS

Miss See also:

Mary See also:

Day of his native See also:

TOWN

town.

The next year he returned to Macon in See also:

low See also:

HEALTH

health, and began to study and practise See also:

law with his father. In 1872 he went to See also:

TEXAS

Texas for his health, but was forced to return, and he secured an engagement as first flute in the See also:

Peabody concerts at See also:

Baltimore (See also:

DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1873). He wrote a See also:

GUIDE (in Mid. Eng. gyde, from the Fr. guide; the earlier French form was guie, English " guy," the d was due to the Italian form guida; the ultimate origin is probably Teutonic, the word being connected with the base seen in O. Eng. witan, to know)

guide-See also:

BOOK

book to See also:

FLORIDA

Florida (1876), and tales for boys from See also:

FROISSART, JEAN (1338-1410?)

Froissart, See also:

MALORY, SIR THOMAS

Malory, the See also:

MABINOGION (plural of Welsh mabinogi, from mabinog, a bard's apprentice)

Mabinogion and See also:

Percy's Reliques (1878-1882). He now made congenial See also:

friends, such as See also:

Bayard See also:

Taylor, his reputation gradually in-creased, and he was enabled to study music and literature, especially Anglo-Saxon See also:

POETRY

poetry. In 1876 he wrote his ambitious See also:

CANTATA (Italian for a song or story set to music)

cantata for the Centennial See also:

EXHIBITION

Exhibition, and brought his See also:

FAMILY

family See also:

north. A small See also:

VOLUME

volume of See also:

VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse appeared in the next year. In 1899 he was made lecturer on See also:

ENGLISH

English literature at Johns See also:

Hopkins University. His lectures became the basis of his See also:

SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

Science of English Verse ('88o)—his most important See also:

PROSE

prose work, and an admirable discussion of the relations of music and poetry—and also of his English Novel (New York, 1883), which, devoted largely to See also:

George See also:

Eliot, is suggestive, but one-sided. Work had to be abandoned orr See also:

account of growing feebleness, and in the See also:

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring of 1881 he was carried to See also:

LYNN

Lynn, North Carolina, to try See also:

CAMP (from Lat. campus, field)

camp See also:

LIFE

life, and died there on the 7th of See also:

SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September. Since his See also:

DEATH

death his fame has grown steadily and greatly, an enlarged and final edition (1884) of his poems, prepared by his wife, his Letters, 1866-1881 (1899), and several volumes of See also:

MISCELLANEOUS

miscellaneous prose having assisted in keeping his name before the public. A See also:

POSTHUMOUS

posthumous work on Shakspere and his Forerunners (See also:

LONDON

London, 2 vols., 1902) was edited by H. W.

Lanier. Among his more noteworthy poems are " See also:

Corn, " " The Revenge of Hamish," " See also:

SONG

Song of the Chattahoochee " and " The Marshes of Glynn." By some his See also:

GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius is regarded as musical rather than poetic, and his See also:

style is considered hectic; by others he is held to be one of the most See also:

ORIGINAL

original and most talented of See also:

MODERN

modern American poets. He is considered the leading writer of the New See also:

South, the greatest See also:

SOUTHERN

Southern poet since See also:

POE, EDGAR ALLAN (18og-1849)

Poe, and a See also:

man of heroic and exquisite See also:

CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character. See a " Memorial," by See also:

William See also:

HAYES, RUTHERFORD BIRCHARD (1822–1893)

Hayes See also:

Ward, prefixed to the Poems (1884); Letters of Sidney Lanier 1866–1881 (1899), edited by H. W. Lanier and Mrs Sidney Lanier; E. Mims, Sidney Lanier (1905). There is a bibliography of Lanier's scattered writings in Select Poems (New York, 1896; See also:

TORONTO

Toronto, 1900) edited by See also:

Morgan Callaway. (W. P.

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