Lanier, the po­et laur­e­ate of Georg­ia, earned his de­gree from Ogle­thorpe Coll­ege. In 1879, he was ap­point­ed lec­tur­er on Eng­lish lit­er­a­ture at Johns Hop­kins Un­i­ver­si­ty in Bal­ti­more, Ma­ry­land. One of his best known po­ems is Song of the Chat­ta­hoo­chee. He was al­so an ac­comp­lished con­cert flu­tist. His works in­clude:

• Tiger Lil­ies, 1867
• Centennial Ode, 1876
• Science of Eng­lish Verse, 1881
• The Eng­lish No­vel and Its De­vel­op­ment, 1883.
• Boys’ Froiss­art, 1879
• Boys’ King Ar­thur, 1880
• Boys’ Ma­bin­o­gi­on, 1881

• Hughes, p. 464

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