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Sidney Lanier Cottage

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Sidney Lanier Cottage
Sidney Lanier Cottage
Sidney Lanier Cottage
Sidney Lanier Cottage
Sidney Lanier Cottage
Sidney Lanier Cottage
Sidney Lanier Cottage
Sidney Lanier Cottage
Sidney Lanier Cottage
Sidney Lanier Cottage
Sidney Lanier Cottage
Sidney Lanier Cottage
Sidney Lanier Cottage
Sidney Lanier Cottage
Sidney Lanier Cottage
Sidney Lanier Cottage
Sidney Lanier Cottage
Sidney Lanier Cottage
Sidney Lanier Cottage
Sidney Lanier Cottage
Phone:
+1 478-743-3851

Hours:
SundayClosed
Monday10am - 4pm
Tuesday10am - 4pm
Wednesday10am - 4pm
Thursday10am - 4pm
Friday10am - 4pm
Saturday10am - 4pm


Sidney Clopton Lanier was an American musician, poet and author. He served in the Confederate States Army as a private, worked on a blockade-running ship for which he was imprisoned , taught, worked at a hotel where he gave musical performances, was a church organist, and worked as a lawyer. As a poet he sometimes, though not exclusively, used dialects. Many of his poems are written in heightened, but often archaic, American English. He became a flautist and sold poems to publications. He eventually became a professor of literature at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and is known for his adaptation of musical meter to poetry. Many schools, other structures and two lakes are named for him, and he became hailed in the South as the poet of the Confederacy.
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