Sidney Lanier

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

US

Active from

1978-04-07

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

9

Total plays

30

Sidney Lanier (February 3, 1842 – September 7, 1881) was an American musician and poet. Sydney Lanier was born February 3, 1842, in Macon, Georgia, to parents Robert Sampson Lanier and Mary Jane Anderson; he was mostly of English ancestry, with his distant French ancestors having immigrated to England in the 16th century. He began playing the flute at an early age, and his love of that musical instrument continued throughout his life. He attended Oglethorpe University near Milledgeville <a href

via Last.fm · Sidney Lanier

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data

   · 2012 · cited 17,719x

2. Harmonizing the Metabolic Syndrome

   · 2009 · cited 12,389x

3. Studies of Illness in the Aged

   · 1963 · cited 9,594x

4. Diagnosis and Management of the Metabolic Syndrome

   · 2005 · cited 9,349x

5. Voice and Equality

   · 1995 · cited 6,417x

via Crossref · CC0

Quotes

• “'Daring with my poem 'Special Pleading' to give myself such freedom as I desired, in my own style'”
• “Sweet Sometime, fly fast for me.”
• “My principle is, the artist shall put forth, humbly & lovingly, without bitterness, the very best & highest that is within him,utterly regardless of contemporary criticism.”
• “Music means harmony, harmony means love. Love means God.”
• “On Poe - I esteem Poe more highly than my countrymen are wont to do . The trouble with him (Poe) was, he did not KNOW enough. He needed to know a good many more things in order to be a great poet.”
• “On Swinburne - He invited me to eat; the service was silver and gold, but no food therein save pepper and salt.”

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

Wikidata facts

Image

Sidney Lanier.jpg

via Wikidata · CC0