Overview of the Collection |
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| Title: | Sidney Lanier Collection |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1878-1940 |
| Quantity: | 0.5 linear ft. |
| Abstract: | Contains published material and a small amount of miscellany about the American poet and musician. The collection does not contain anything by Lanier himself. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 http://scrc.syr.edu |
Sidney Lanier (1842-1881) was an American poet and musician. He was a soldier in the Confederate army, a lawyer and a teacher before beginning to write poetry, and eventually joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins University where he lectured on the English novelists and Elizabethan and Anglo-Saxon poets. He took up the flute in the late 1870s or early 1880s, and for a time played with the Peabody Orchestra in Baltimore, Maryland. He was known for combining music and poetry in a proselike form known as logaoedic verse.
The Sidney Lanier Collection consists of published material about Sidney Lanier (nothing by him) and a small amount of miscellany about the American poet and musician. Included are several copies of a musical piece entitled "The Grasshopper: A Tragic Cantata." The connection of this piece to Lanier is unknown, as he is not listed as either the composer or the lyricist. The collection was likely accumulated by John S. Mayfield.
There are no access restrictions on this material.
Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
Special Collections Research Center has a number of published works by and about Sidney Lanier in both our regular and Rare Books holdings. Please search SUMMIT, our main catalog for these related materials.
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Sidney Lanier Collection,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Library
Unknown.
Created by: MRC
Date: 11 Oct 2011
Revision history:
| Published material | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | The general and the poet, Chris Emmett 1940 - comparative biographical sketches of Sidney Lanier and General Albert Sidney Johnston; signed and inscribed to John S. Mayfield | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | The grasshopper: a tragic cantata, Innes Randolph 1878 - multiple copies, various sizes and colors | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Sidney Lanier's immoral bird, John S. Mayfield May-June 1935 - reprint from The American Book Collector (3 copies) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Sidney Lanier at Oglethorpe University, Leola Selman Beeson 1936 - signed and inscribed to John S. Mayfield | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Sidney Lanier in Texas, John S. Mayfield 1932 (2 copies) | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Some new facts concerning Sidney Lanier in Florida, John S. Mayfield Nov 1935 - reprint from The Johns Hopkins Alumni Magazine | ||||||||||
| Miscellaneous | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Correspondence 1935, 1940 - Mayfield and publishers | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Printing plates - small copper plates, backed with wood blocks; portrait of Lanier with dates (5 items) | ||||||||||
