A Sidney Lanier Reader

by Sidney Lanier, Edward Mims

Sidney Lanier was one of the most important American poets of the late 19th century. Born in Georgia in 1842, he was influenced by the ancestry of his family, his parents religiosity, his education at Oglethorpe University, and the wealth of information he found in the Peabody Library in Baltimore, where he spent an important part of his life on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University. He was also famous for his scholarly contributions to literary theory, a subject of considerable interest even to this day.

Among the more than one hundred poems in this 1196-page volume are:
“The Marshes of Glynn”
“The Mocking-bird”
“June Dreams in January”
“The Revenge of Hamish”
“Corn”

A scholarly work on the English novel shows the breadth of Sidney Lanier’s knowledge. A long biographical sketch of Lanier and his place in American literature by Edward Mims is included herein.

912 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 2, 2014

About the author

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.