| Show LANIERS STRUGGLE STRUGGLE As A poet and musician as lecturer and lawyer as teacher and civil service employee sidney lanier struggled to support his bis family and to write at the same samei time his imprisonment during the civil war left him with diseased lungs so that like poe he died in his bis fortieth year born in macon ga in 1842 the poet grew up in an atmosphere of learning and refinement he was graduated from oglethorpe college where his position as a teacher was interrupted by the war adversity seemed determined to prevent his writing once he be wrote to his father that it seemed right for him to devote himself to poetry having followed it so long with so much humility but a migration to various climates loss of property and a family in need were always to be considered first lanier died in 1881 |
