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Sidney Lanier

Born

in Macon, GA, The United States

February 03, 1842

Died

September 07, 1881

Genre

Poetry

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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 Thomas Malory's History of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Sidney Lanier, Thomas Malory, Newell Convers Wyeth 3.93 avg rating — 387 ratings — published 1880 — 148 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poems of Sidney Lanier 3.84 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1897 — 185 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hymns of the Marshes 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Select Poems of Sidney Lanier really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1947 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hidden Past: A Romantic Suspense Novel really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tiger-Lilies (Southern Literary Classics Series) 2.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Florida (Bicentennial Floridiana Facsimile Series) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1973 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Boy's Froissart by Sidney Lanier (Adapter), Jean Froissart liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1879 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Science of English Verse 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1979 — 95 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Knightly Legends of Wales: or, The Boy's Mabinogion, being the Earliest Welsh Tales of King Arthur in the Famous Red Book of Hergest 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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

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“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

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

tags: old-saying

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