Sydney+Lanier

Sidney Lanier was born in Macon, Georgia, on February 3, 1842; died in Lynn, North Carolina, on September 7, 1881. He has a novel, named “Tiger-Lilies” that he wrote in three weeks. It is about his experience of being imprisoned. He was a clerk in Montgomery, Alabama, then a principal of an academy in Prattville, Alabama. In 1868-72, he practiced law with his dad. At the suggestion of his friend, he was chosen to write the words of cantata for the opening of the Centennial exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876. In October, 1877 he settled in Baltimore and delivered lectures on English literature. In December, 1880, he wrote his poem “Sunrise,” one of a projected entitled “Hymns of the Marshes.”