BIOGRAPHY

Abernathy, Cecil. “Lanier in Alabama.” Alabama Review 17, no. 1 (January 1964): 5-21.

Biographical account of Lanier's time in Alabama, with a focus on his romance with Mary Day, the future Mrs. Lanier.

Bradford, Gamaliel. “Sidney Lanier.” In American Portraits 1875-1900, pp. 61-83. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920.

Biographical portrait of Lanier's life.

Brenner, Rica. “Sidney Lanier.” In Twelve American Poets Before 1900, pp. 296-320. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, Inc., 1933.

Biographical essay focusing on Lanier's life and poetic works.

Hard, Frederick. “Sidney Lanier: Amateur Shakespearean.” Shakespeare Celebrated: Anniversary Lectures Delivered at the Folger Library, edited by Louis B. Wright, pp. 155-76. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1966.

Lecture originally given in 1964 outlining Lanier's life, with an emphasis on his Shakespeare criticism.

Parks, Edd Winfield. Sidney Lanier: The Man, The Poet, The Critic. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1968, 109 p.

Biography and critical study of Lanier's life, poetry, and literary criticism.

CRITICISM

Antippas, A. P., and Carol Flake. “Sidney Lanier's Letters to Clare deGraffenreid.” American Literature 45, no. 2 (May 1973): 182-205.

Considers the friendship between Sidney Lanier and Mary Clare deGaffenreid as evidenced by their correspondence, which many previous Lanier biographers had ignored.

Bentley, D. M. R. “Roberts' ‘Tantramar Revisited’ and Lanier's ‘The Marshes of Glynn.’” Studies in Canadian Literature 5 (fall 1980): 316-19.

Posits the possible influence Lanier's poem “The Marshes of Glynn” had on Charles G. D. Roberts' poem “Tantramar Revisted.”

De Bellis, Jack. “Sidney Lanier and German Romance: An Important Qualification.” Comparative Literature Studies 5, no. 2 (June 1968): 145-55.

Argues that Lanier's Tiger-Lilies, despite popular critical belief, is not strongly influenced by German Romance, since at the time of its composition Lanier had only second-hand understanding of German literature.

Strong, Augustus Hopkins. “Sidney Lanier.” In American Poets and Their Theology, pp. 371-418. Philadelphia: The Griffith and Rowland Press, 1916.

Survey of Lanier's life, music, and most significant works.

Additional coverage of Lanier's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 64; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Documentary Series, Vol. 13; DISCovering Authors Modules: Major Authors and Illustrators for Children and Young Adults; Poets; and Something about the Author, Vol. 18.