'''Sidney Clopton Lanier'''<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.netstate.com/states/peop/people/ga_scl.htm | title = Sidney Clopton Lanier | date = September 24, 2009 | accessdate = 2012-12-06 | publisher = Netstate}}</ref> (February 3, 1842 – September 7, 1881) iswas an American musician, poet and author. He served in the [[Confederate States Army|Confederate army]], worked on a blockade running ship for which he was imprisoned (resulting in his catching [[tuberculosis]]), 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 [[dialect]]s. 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.
