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See also:SIDNEY See also:LANIER (1842–1881) , See also:American poet, was See also:born at See also:Macon, See also:Georgia, on the 3rd of See also:February 1842 . He was of Huguenot descent on his See also:father's See also:side, and of Scottish and Virginian on his See also:mother's . From childhood he was passionately fond of See also:music . His subsequent mastery of the See also:flute helped to support him and greatly increased his reputation . At the See also:age of fourteen he entered See also:Oglethorpe See also:College, where, after graduating with distinction, he held a tutorship . He enlisted in the See also:Con-federate See also:army in See also:April 1861, serving first in See also:Virginia, and finding opportunities to continue his studies . After the Seven Days' battles around See also:Richmond, he was transferred to the See also:signal service . About this See also:time the first symptoms of See also:consumption appeared . He subsequently served in a See also:blockade-runner, but his See also:vessel was captured, and he was confined for five months in a Federal See also:prison, his flute proving the best of companions . Exchanged See also:early in 1865, he started See also:home on See also:foot, arriving in a See also:state of exhaustion that led to a severe illness . In 1867 he visited New See also:York in connexion with his novel See also:Tiger Lilies—an immature See also:work, dealing in See also:part with his See also:war experiences, and now difficult to obtain . Later in the same See also:year he took See also:charge of a See also:country school in See also:Alabama, and was married to See also:Miss See also:Mary See also:Day of his native See also:town .
The next year he returned to Macon in See also:low See also:health, and began to study and practise See also:law with his father
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In 1872 he went to See also:Texas for his health, but was forced to return, and he secured an engagement as first flute in the See also:Peabody concerts at See also:Baltimore (See also:December 1873)
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He wrote a See also:guide-See also:book to See also:Florida (1876), and tales for boys from See also:Froissart, See also:Malory, the See also:Mabinogion and See also:Percy's Reliques (1878-1882)
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He now made congenial See also:friends, such as See also:Bayard See also:
See also:Lanier
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Among his more noteworthy poems are " See also:Corn, " " The Revenge of Hamish," " See also:Song of the Chattahoochee " and " The Marshes of Glynn." By some his See also:genius is regarded as musical rather than poetic, and his See also:style is considered hectic; by others he is held to be one of the most See also:original and most talented of See also:modern American poets
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He is considered the leading writer of the New See also:South, the greatest See also:Southern poet since See also:Poe, and a See also:man of heroic and exquisite See also:character
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