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

Sources

Hymns

1. Into the Woods