Sidney Lanier

Born: 1842 in Macon, Georgia

• GA's first "national" poet who wrote about:

  • Man's faith

  • Men's relation to his fellows and to the natural world

• "The Marshes of Glynn" and "Song of the Chattahoochee"

  • Set in natural surroundings of the state

• Born and raised in mid-class Macon, Georgia

• Suffered from tuberculosis and died at the age of 39

Died: 1881 in Lynn, North Carolina