Sidney Lanier

Japanese: ラニエ（英語表記）Sidney Lanier

1842‐81
American poet, musician, and critic. Born in Georgia. Immediately after graduating from college, the Civil War broke out and Lanier joined the Confederate Army, becoming a prisoner of war with the Union Army in 1864. After the war, in 1873, he became a flute player in an orchestra in Baltimore, and in 1876 taught English literature at Johns Hopkins University. His poems include Symphony (1875) and Glynn's Marsh (1878), and he is considered the greatest Southern poet since Poe, but he lacked Poe's genius. His prose works include The Science of English Poetry (1880), which discusses the relationship between poetry and music.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1842‐81
アメリカの詩人，音楽家，批評家。ジョージア州生れ。大学卒業直後に南北戦争が始まり，南軍に参加したラニエは1864年に北軍の捕虜になる。戦後の73年にボルティモアのオーケストラのフルート奏者になり，76年からジョンズ･ホプキンズ大学で英文学を講じた。《シンフォニー》(1875)，《グリンの沼》(1878)などの詩があり，ポー以来の最高の南部詩人と目されているが，ポーの才気には欠ける。散文には，詩と音楽の関係を論ずる《英詩の科学》(1880)がある。

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