Sidney Lanier

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Sidney Clopton Lanier (1842–1881) was an American musician, poet, and author.

He served in Confederate States Army as a private and worked on a blockade-running ship for which he was imprisoned (resulting in his infection of tuberculosis). He taught, worked in a hotel where he gave musical performances, and was a lawyer.

He used dialects as a poet occasionally, but not necessarily.

Many of his poems are written in heightened, but often archaic, American English.

He became a flautist and published poems.

He later became a literature professor at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and is best known for his contribution of musical meter to poetry.

Several schools, other buildings, and two lakes have been named for him, and he has been praised in the South as the Confederacy's "poet."

He was honoured on a 1972 US postage stamp as a "American poet."

Later life

He became a scholar, lecturer, and, eventually, a faculty member at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, specializing in the works of the English novelists, Shakespeare, Elizabethan sonneteers, Chaucer, and the Old English poets later in his brief 39-year career. He wrote The English Novel (published posthumously in 1883) and a book titled The Science of English Verse (1880), in which he established a novel theory investigating the links between musical notation and poetry meter.

On September 7, 1881, Lanier finally succumbed to the complications resulting from his tuberculosis, while convalescing with his family near Lynn, North Carolina. He was 39 years old when he died. Lanier is buried in Baltimore's Green Mount Cemetery.

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