Sidney Lanier poem, 18uu.

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Sidney Lanier poem, 18uu.

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The collection consists of heavily alliterative poetic lines from "Sunrise", the first segment of "Hymns of the Marshes," written on both sides of a note card. The present manuscript differs slightly in both wording and punctuation from the published version in "Poems of Sidney Lanier" edited by Mary Day Lanier. It is also signed by the poet.

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Lanier, Sidney, 1842-1881

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Sidney Lanier was a noted Southern poet and composer, born in Macon, Georgia, on Feb. 3, 1842. He graduated from Oglethorpe University and voluntarily fought for the Confederacy as a member of the 2nd Battalion Infantry (Georgia), and the Signal Corps. It is likely that Lanier contracted tuberculosis during his stay at at Union prison camp, and the complications from that disease would affect Lanier his entire life. After the war, Lanier worked as a tutor and headmaster at an academy in Alabama ...