Song of the Chattahoochee
Chapter 1 of 11 The Song of the Chattahoochee. - Read by ALP
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2:45
- Running time
- 31 min
- Language
- English
- Readers
- Algy Pug, Caitlin Buckley, Chris Pyle, Claudia Salto, David Lawrence and 6 others
Chapters
About this recording
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.
