Southern Classics Franklin Library: SIDNEY LANIER: GEORGIA: CIVIL WAR POET

Description: Southern Classics Library leather edition of "Poems of Sidney Lanier," Edited by his wife, Frontispiece portrait of Lanier, reproduced through courtesy of the Middle George Historical Society, reprinted from an 1890 D. Appleton and Company, published in 1983. Bound in burgundy leather, the book has marbled paper end leaves, a satin book marker, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in FINE condition. Sidney Lanier, who lived from 1842--- 1881, was a Macon, Georgia musician and poet whose verse often suggests the rhythms and music. Lanier was reared by devoutly religious parents in the traditions of the Old South. As a child he wrote verses and was especially fond of music. After graduation in 1860 from Oglethorpe College (now University), Atlanta, Ga., he served in the Civil War until his capture and subsequent imprisonment at Point Lookout, Md., where he contracted tuberculosis. In 1867 he married Mary Day, also of Macon; and in the same year he published his first book, the novel Tiger-Lilies, a mixture of German philosophy, Southern traditional romance, and his own war experiences. After working in his father’s law office at Macon, teaching school at Prattville, Ala., and traveling for his health in Texas, he accepted in 1873 a position as first flutist in the Peabody Orchestra, Baltimore. With numerous poems already published in magazines, he wrote several potboilers and played private concerts and delivered lectures to small groups. Lanier is Georgia's most illustrious poet and Macon's "favorite son." 252 pages. I offer combined shipping.

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