Sidney Lanier (1842-1881)
Miscellaneous writer, son of a lawyer of Huguenot descent, was born in Macon, Georgia. He took on several careers, such as soldier, shopman, teacher, lawyer, musician, and professor. His first literary venture was a novel, Tiger Lilies (1867). Later, he wrote mainly on literature, his works including The Science of English Verse (1881), The English Novel (1883), and Shakespeare and his Forerunners (1902).
There are also some poems which have been greatly admired, including “Corn,” “The Marshes of Glynn,” and “The Song of the Chattahoochee”; edition of Froissart, and the Welsh Mabinogion for children. He worked under the shadow of serious lung trouble, which eventually brought about his death.
From Biographical Dictionary of English Literature - the Everyman Edition of 1910

links:  - Sidney Lanier at North Carolina University (U.S.A.)