LANIER, SIDNEY

(1842-81); an American writer and poet, b. in Macon, Ga. He graduated from Ogle thorpe College, Ga., in 1869, served as a private in Confederate Army during the Civil War, was for a while after that a hotel clerk in Montgomery, Ga., studied law and practiced with his fatheys, in Macon, and in 1879 became lecturer on Eng. literature at Johns Hopkins University, @ position he held for the rest of his life. Among his prose works are Tiger Lilies, a novel, written during his early life in Montgomery; The Boy’s Froi art, 1878, and The Boy’s King Arthur, 1880. Among his best known poems are Hymns of the Marshes; Clover; The Crystal and. The Symphony.