Sidney Lanier, by Jack De Bellis (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1972).
Sidney Lanier, by Edwin Mims (Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1905), also available as an etext: Project Gutenberg, February, 1998. *
Sidney Lanier: A Biographical and Critical Study, by Aubrey Harrison Starke
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1933). *
Sidney Lanier, Poet and Prosodist, by Richard Webb
(Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1941). *
Sidney Lanier: The Man, the Poet, the Critic, by Edd Winfield Parks
(Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1969).
Letters of Sidney Lanier, Selections from His Correspondence, 1866-1881, ed. Henry W. Lanier (New York: Scribner's, 1899).
Letters of Sidney Lanier to Col. John G. James, ed. Margaret Lee Wiley
(Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1942).
Some Reminiscences and Early Letters of Sidney Lanier, ed. George Herbert Clarke (Macon, Ga.: Burke, 1907).
— * According to Mrs. Oliver at the Middle Georgia Historical Society, in Macon, Ga., patrons express special interest in these works. —
The Johns Hopkins University has a large collection of Lanier materials. Cynthia Requardt, the Curator of Special Collections, has noted that many visitors are more interested in his music than his poetry. Joan Grattan (Manuscripts) has confirmed that the above selections represent the most important materials on Lanier. The index to these materials is online, at gopher://musicbox.mse.jhu.edu/ and more specifically at gopher://musicbox.mse.jhu.edu/00/mss/ms007.txt (as of 5 March 1998).