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Sidney Lanier contracted the tuberculosis that would kill him while in a military prison during the Civil War. Even so, he spent the next...

After the Civil War, Sidney Lanier moved to Montgomery, Alabama for a time, where he worked as a teacher and musician. He also contribute...

Sidney Lanier was living in Alabama when, in 1867, he took a trip to New York City in the hopes of publishing his first book, a novel he ca...

"By the grace of God," wrote Sidney Lanier to his friend and colleague Bayard Taylor on April 4, 1876, "my centennial Ode...

The short life of Sidney Lanier began with his birth in Macon , Georgia on February 3, 1842. He became interested in music early in his boy...

Sidney Lanier was 25 years old and living in Alabama when he wrote Tiger Lilies , his only novel. He was living in Macon, Georgia , when he...

The public library in Macon, Georgia unveiled a bust to their native poet/musician Sidney Lanier on October 17, 1890. The bust was a copy ...

"About four days ago," wrote Sidney Lanier , "a certai n poem which I had vaguely ruminated for a week before took hold of me...

Though (wrongly) forgotten today, poet and travel writer Bayard Taylor had a major impact on his generation. His death in Germany in 1878 ...

In a letter dated September 28, 1871, Sidney Lanier wrote to his wife that he had just returned from a performance at St. Paul's Church...

As part of the nation's centennial celebration on July 4, 1876, Pennsylvania poet and travel writer Bayard Taylor (pictured) was chose...

It was only after a short career that the Georgia-born poet/novelist Sidney Lanier struggled with tuberculosis. When he could, he traveled...

The Georgia-born poet Sidney Lanier joined a secret literary society while a student at Oglethorpe University. There, he fostered his lo...