Editing Sidney Lanier (section)

==Legacy and honors==
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[[File:Sidney Lanier US stamp.jpg|thumb|1972 U.S. postage stamp, Sidney Lanier – American Poet]]
The [[Sidney Lanier Cottage]] in [[Macon, Georgia]], is listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]. The square stone [[Four Southern Poets Monument]], located between 7th and 8th Streets in Augusta, lists Lanier as one of Georgia's four great poets, all of whom were in the Confederate military.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.eerdmans.com/shop_products/9780802864871_l.jpg |title=Hanna's Child |access-date=April 30, 2010 |archive-date=March 6, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306050607/http://www.eerdmans.com/shop_products/9780802864871_l.jpg |url-status=dead }}</ref>  The southeastern side bears this inscription:  "To Sidney Lanier 1842–1880. The Catholic man who hath mightily won God out of knowledge and good out of infinite pain and sight out of blindness and purity out of a stain."  The other poets on the monument are [[James Ryder Randall]], Fr. [[Abram Ryan]], and [[Paul Hayne]].

Baltimore honored Lanier with a large and elaborate bronze and granite sculptural monument, created by [[Hans K. Schuler]] and located on the campus of the [[Johns Hopkins University]]. In addition to the monument at Johns Hopkins, Lanier was also later memorialized on the campus of [[Duke University]] in [[Durham, North Carolina]]. Upon the construction of the iconic [[Duke Chapel]] between 1930 and 1935 on the university's West Campus, a statue of Lanier was included alongside two fellow prominent Southerners, [[Thomas Jefferson]] and [[Robert E. Lee]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://library.duke.edu/uarchives/history/histnotes/stonesetters.html |title=The Stonesetters |access-date=April 29, 2010 |archive-date=March 7, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130307042722/http://library.duke.edu/uarchives/history/histnotes/stonesetters.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> This statue, which appears to show a Lanier older than the 39 years he actually lived, is situated on the right side of the portico leading into the chapel narthex. It is prominently featured on the cover of the 2010 autobiographical memoir ''Hannah's Child'', by [[Stanley Hauerwas]], a Methodist theologian teaching at [[Duke Divinity School]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.oocities.org/heartland/pines/3093/augusta.html|title=Frankies Confederate Monuments and Memorials of the South}}</ref>

[[The United Daughters of the Confederacy]] worked successfully to enhance Lanier's legacy.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Noble |first1=Don |title=Brother Sid: A Novel of Sidney Lanier |url=https://www.apr.org/post/brother-sid-novel-sidney-lanier#stream/0 |website=www.apr.org |date=May 5, 2014 |access-date=22 March 2019 |language=en}}</ref>

Lanier's poem "The Marshes of Glynn" is the inspiration for a [[cantata]] by the same name that was created by the modern English composer [[Andrew Downes (composer)|Andrew Downes]] to celebrate the Royal Opening of the [[Adrian Boult Hall]] in Birmingham, England, in 1986.

[[Piers Anthony]] used Lanier, his life, and his poetry in his science-fiction novel ''[[Macroscope (novel by Piers Anthony)|Macroscope]]'' (1969).  He quotes from "The Marshes of Glynn" and other references appear throughout the novel.

In 1980, Yugoslav rock band [[Lutajuća Srca]] recorded the song "Večernja pesma", featuring lyrics from Lanier's "An Evening Poem" in [[Serbo-Croatian language|Serbo-Croatian]], the song becoming a minor hit for the band.<ref name="janjatović">{{cite book|last=Janjatović|first=Petar|title= EX YU ROCK enciklopedija 1960–2006|year=2007|publisher=self-released|location=Belgrade|page=138}}</ref>

Several entities have been named for Sidney Lanier. Among them are:

===Inhabited places===
*[[Lanier County, Georgia]]
*Sidney Lanier Avenue, residential street, Athens, Georgia
*Sidney Lanier Lane, residential street, Greenwich, Connecticut
*Lanier Avenue, Fayetteville, Georgia
*Lanier Street, residential street, Decatur, Alabama
*[[Lanier Heights]], neighborhood, Washington, D.C.
*(Indirectly) {{USS|Lanier|APA-125|6}}, which was named for the county.

===Bodies of water===
*[[Lake Lanier]], operated by the [[U.S. Army Corps of Engineers]] northeast of [[Atlanta, Georgia]]
*Lake Lanier in [[Landrum, South Carolina]].

===Schools===
*[[Sidney Lanier High School]] in [[Montgomery, Alabama]] (The Montgomery County Board of Education voted to close the school in 2024)
* Sidney Lanier School in [[Gainesville, Florida]]<ref>[http://www.sbac.edu/~lanier/ Sidney Lanier School] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080228234527/http://www.sbac.edu/~lanier/ |date=February 28, 2008 }}</ref>
*[[Lanier University]], short-lived university; first Baptist, then owned by the [[Ku Klux Klan]] for a year, in [[Atlanta, Georgia]]
*[[Glynn Academy#Sidney Lanier Building|The Sidney Lanier Building]] (previously Sidney Lanier Elementary School) on the campus of [[Glynn Academy]], in Brunswick, Georgia
*[[Lanier Middle School (Sugar Hill, Georgia)|Lanier Middle School in Sugar Hill, Georgia]]
*[[Lanier High School (Sugar Hill, Georgia)|Lanier High School in Sugar Hill, Georgia]]
* Lanier Elementary School in [[Gainesville, Georgia]]<ref>[http://www.hallco.org/tp3/school.aspx?CountyID=1&SchoolID=37 Lanier Elementary School website]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
*Sidney Lanier Elementary School in [[Tulsa, Oklahoma]]
* [[Lanier High School (Austin, Texas)|Sidney Lanier High School]] in Austin, Texas. Renamed to Juan Navarro High School Feb, 2019<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.laniervikings.org/ |title=Lanier Viking High School Website |access-date=April 2, 2019 |archive-date=March 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329190446/http://www.laniervikings.org/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*Sidney Lanier Expressive Arts Vanguard Elementary School in [[Dallas, Texas]]
* [[Lanier Middle School (Houston)|Lanier Middle School in Houston, Texas]] (Now Bob Lanier Middle School after 90 years as Sidney Lanier Middle School)
*[[Lanier High School (San Antonio, Texas)|Lanier High School in San Antonio, Texas]]
* Sidney Lanier Elementary School in Tampa, Florida
* [[Lanier Technical College]] in Gainesville, Georgia
* Katherine Johnson Middle School in Fairfax, Virginia was named Sidney Lanier Middle School for 60 years before being renamed for Johnson in 2021.<ref>[http://www.fcps.edu/LanierMS/ Lanier Middle School in Fairfax website]</ref><ref>[https://www.cityoffairfaxschools.org/apps/news/article/1330350 City of Fairfax Schools press release]</ref>
* Lanier Elementary school in Blount County, Tennessee<ref>{{Cite web |author=Staff reports |title=Lanier named for a poet |url=https://www.thedailytimes.com/z_hub_styles/mdt_special/lanier-named-for-a-poet/article_b0e0197e-b138-5b5a-ad0d-56aff9dfd9c1.html |access-date=2023-04-27 |website=The Daily Times |date=May 9, 2018 |language=en}}</ref>

===Other===
[[File:Lanier's Oak, Brunswick, GA, US.jpg|thumb|Sidney Lanier sat under [[Lanier's Oak|this oak tree]] and was inspired to write the poem "[[The Marshes of Glynn]]".]]

*[[Sidney Lanier Cottage]], the birthplace of Lanier, in Macon, Georgia
*[[Sidney Lanier Bridge]] over the South Brunswick River in [[Brunswick, Georgia]]
*[[Sidney Lanier Monument]], a monument in [[Piedmont Park]] in Atlanta
*[[Lanier's Oak]] in Brunswick, Georgia
*[[The Lanier Library]], Tryon, North Carolina. Lanier's widow, Mary, donated two of his volumes of poetry to begin the collection when the library was established in 1890.
*Sidney Lanier Camp, Eliot, Maine.
*[[Sidney Lanier Boulevard]] in Duluth, GA
*The Sidney Lanier Suite at The Harwood Cottage at Historic Macon, GA
*The [[World War II]] [[Liberty Ship]] {{SS|Sidney Lanier}} was named in his honor.
*A 1972 US eight-cent postage stamp: "Sidney Lanier - American poet"
*Sidney Lanier Memorial Scholarship at the [[University of California, Los Angeles]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ucla.academicworks.com/opportunities/31375 |title=Sidney Lanier Memorial Scholarship |author=<!--Not stated--> |website= University of California Los Angeles-Scholarships|access-date=10 May 2021}}</ref>
* Lanier Island, in the [[Mackay River]] in Glynn County, Georgia.