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Sidney Lanier


Born
in Macon, GA, The United States
February 03, 1842

Died
September 07, 1881

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Sidney Clopton Lanier was an American musician, poet and author. 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 flutist 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.

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The Boy's King Arthur: Sir ...

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3.91 avg rating — 378 ratings — published 1880 — 148 editions
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Poems of Sidney Lanier

3.88 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1897 — 191 editions
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Hymns of the Marshes

4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015 — 47 editions
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Select Poems of Sidney Lanier

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Hidden Past: A Romantic Sus...

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Tiger-Lilies (Southern Lite...

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Florida (Bicentennial Flori...

4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1973 — 36 editions
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The Boy's Froissart

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The Science of English Verse

4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1979 — 94 editions
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Knightly Legends of Wales: ...

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“Music is love in search of a word.”
Sidney Lanier

“Through the seas of dreams and the seas of fantasies, through the seas of solitudes and vacancies, and through myself, the deepest of the seas, I strive to thee, Nirvana.”
Sidney Lanier

“like the old saying goes,if you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks”
Sydney Lanier, Tiger-Lilies

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