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<h2>Sidney Clopton Lanier</h2>
<h2>1842-1881</h2>
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<td><em>Born:</em> February 3, 1842, Macon, Georgia.<p><em>Died:</em> September 7, 1881, Lynn, North Carolina.</p><p><em>Buried:</em> Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland.</p></td>
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<p>Lanier, the &#8220;poet laureate of Georgia,&#8221; earned his degree from Oglethorpe College. In 1879, he was appointed lecturer on English literature at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. One of his best known poems is &#8220;Song of the Chattahoochee.&#8221; His other works include:</p>
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<li><em>Tiger Lilies</em>, 1867</li>
<li>&#8220;Centennial Ode,&#8221; 1876</li>
<li>&#8220;Science of English Verse,&#8221; 1881</li>
<li>&#8220;The English Novel and Its Development,&#8221; 1883.</li>
<li>&#8220;Boys&#8217; Froissart,&#8221; 1879</li>
<li>&#8220;Boys&#8217; King Arthur,&#8221; 1880</li>
<li>&#8220;Boys&#8217; Mabinogion,&#8221; 1881</li>
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<p>Lanier was also an accomplished concert flutist.</p>
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