Poems By William Cullen Bryant Classic American Poetry Of The Romantic Era

This supreme collection of William Cullen Bryant's poetry includes his original works, his unique translations of several classic poems, plus an anthology of little-seen verses he composed in later life. A highly regarded poet of the romantic era, Bryant was rarely out of the American public's eye. For many years he served as editor of the popular newspaper the New York Evening Post, as well as contributing poems and essays to several other magazines and periodicals, Bryant's name was synonymous with the USA's fledgling artistic expression and literature throughout much of the nineteenth century. Bryant's most famous poem, Thanatopsis, was subject to much surprise in that many assumed it had been plagiarized, or at least ghost-written, by a European poet. When it was published in the early nineteenth century, there had been little romantic poetry of such quality produced by an American.

William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) was born in Massachusetts. He is considered to be one of the finest romantic poets in early American literary history. William wrote poetry from a young age. In 1811, he began working on one of his most famous poems, Thanatopsis (a Greek title which means meditation on death). The depth and maturity of the poem lead to it being initially mistakenly attributed to his father, Dr. Bryant. Once clarification of it's owner was established, the poem was published in 1817, marking William's early talent for poetry. Bryant is considered one of the most significant poets of his time, and is included among the group known as the 'fireside poets', a group of internationally acclaimed American poets who rivalled British poets, whose works would entertain families, at home, gathered around the fireside. This book is an important comprehensive collection of his poetry for you to study and enjoy.

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When to the common rest that crowns our days, Called in the noon of life, the good man goes, Or full of years, and ripe in wisdom, laysHis silver temples in their last repose;When, o'er the buds of youth, the death-wind blows, And blights the fairest; when our bitter tearsStream, as the eyes of those that love us close, We think on what they were, with many fearsLest goodness die with them, and leave the coming years.

William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) was an American romantic poet, journalist, and editor. He developed an interest in poetry early in life. Under his father s tutelage, he emulated Alexander Pope and other Neo-Classic British poets. The Embargo, a savage attack on President Thomas Jefferson published in 1808, reflected Dr. Bryant s Federalist political views. He began to read law, but regenerated his passion for poetry through encounters with the English pre-Romantics and, particularly, William Wordsworth. His first collection of poems was published in 1821. Even so, it was not until 1832, when an expanded Poems was published in the U. S. and, with the assistance of Washington Irving, in Britain, that he won recognition as America s leading poet. In 1825, he was hired as editor, first of the New-York Review, then of the United States Review and Literary Gazette. He became Assistant Editor of the New-York Evening Post, a newspaper founded by Alexander Hamilton that was surviving precariously. Other works include: The Fountain (1842), The White-Footed Deer (1844), Letters of a Traveller; or, Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America (1850) and The Little People of the Snow (1873).