Vanished in the Unknown Shade: Poet Sidney Lanier's Montgomery Years

by Helen Friedman Blackshear

Though little known today, Sidney Lanier (1842-81) was considered by some critics the leading writer of the post-Civil War New South, the greatest Southern writer after Edgar Allan Poe, and "a man of heroic and exquisite character." Lanier was a Georgian, but he spent two years after the war in Montgomery, Alabama, trying to restore his health after contracting tuberculosis while a prisoner of war. He also was principal of a school in nearby Prattville...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1603062610
• ISBN13: 9781603062619
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: NewSouth Books
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"