The Song of the Chattahoochee

Author(s): Sidney Lanier

Genre(s): Multi-version (weekly And Fortnightly Poetry)

Narrators: Algy Pug, Caitlin Buckley, Claudia Salto, Chris Pyle, Domenica Campbell, David Lawrence, Newgatenovelist, Greg Giordano, Larry Wilson, Leonard Wilson, NoelBadrian

Number of Chapters: 11

Length: 30 minutes

Language: English

Sidney Clopton Lanier was an American musician, poet and author. He served in the Confederate army, worked on a blockade running ship for which he was imprisoned (resulting in his catching tuberculosis), taught, worked at a hotel where he gave musical performances, was a church organist, and worked as a lawyer. As a poet he used dialects. He became a flautist and sold poems to publications. He eventually became a university professor and is known for his adaptation of musical meter to poetry. Many schools, other structures and two lakes are named for him.