Sidney Lanier

An American musician, poet and author born in Macon, Georgia. He served in the Confederate States Army as a private, taught, worked at a hotel where he gave musical performances, was a church organist, and worked as a lawyer. He became a flautist and sold poems to publications. He eventually became a professor of literature at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and is known for his adaptation of musical meter to poetry. (from Wikipedia)

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