SIDNEY LANIER
\sˈɪdnɪ lˈe͡ɪnɪə], \sˈɪdnɪ lˈeɪnɪə], \s_ˈɪ_d_n_ɪ l_ˈeɪ_n_ɪ__ə]\
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An American poet; born at Macon, Ga., Feb. 3, 1842; died at Lynn, N. C., Sept. 7, 1881. He served in the Confederate Army as a private soldier; after the war studied law, and for a while practiced it at Macon; but abandoned that profession and devoted himself to music and poetry. From 1879 till his death he was lecturer on English literature in Johns Hopkins University. The poem "Corn", one of his earliest pieces (1874), and "Clover", "The Bee", "The Dove", etc., show insight into nature. His poetic works were collected and published (1884) after his death. He wrote also several works in prose, mostly pertaining to literary criticism and to mediaeval history: among the former are "The Science of English Verse" (1880); "The English Novel and the Principles of its Development" (1883). He edited or compiled "The Boy's Froissart" (1878); "The Boy's King Arthur" (1880); "The Boy's Percy" (1882).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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