William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)
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Like so many successful New Yorkers during the nineteenth century, William C. Bryant was born and reared in New England. There, in his native Massachusetts, among the beautiful highlands of the Berkshires, he learned early to be a close observer of nature and a careful student of English visa mer versification. A child prodigy, he began to make rhymes before his tenth birthday, and in 1808 he gained some fame as the author of The Embargo, or Sketches of the Time, a satire in verse in which he echoed the conservative political sentiments of his elders. Soon, however, he found his own voice and point of view, and the poetry that followed, unlike so much of the literature that was being produced in the United States in the early decades of the nineteenth century, was considered by his contemporaries to be unmistakably American. During his own lifetime and since, his most famous poem has been "Thanatopsis" (from the Greek thanato and opsis, meaning "a meditation on death"), which was first published in the North American Review in 1817. Other poems, such as "Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood" (1817), "A Forest Hymn" (1825), and "To the Fringed Gentian" (1832), printed during the next several decades, brought him recognition both at home and abroad as the leading poet in the United States. Always solemn and stately, his verse seemed cold to James Russell Lowell, who humorously spoke of Bryant's "iceolation." But others praised Bryant for his careful artisanship, his commitment to romantic aesthetics, his celebration of nature, and his liberal faith in the historical destiny of the United States. Matthew Arnold called "To a Waterfowl" (1818) one of the finest short lyrics in the English language, and "The Prairies" (1833) and "Earth" (1835) have been seen as noble literary expressions "of the Jacksonian version of the American Dream." By training a lawyer and by profession a journalist, Bryant was editor-in-chief of the New York Evening Post from 1829 until his death in 1878. This position gave him enormous influence on national affairs, and his early support for the fledgling Republican party in the 1850s helped insure that party's success. When he was nearly 80 years old, he translated the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer into English blank verse. Bryant died in 1878. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Verk av William Cullen Bryant
Early American Poetry: Selections from Bradstreet, Taylor, Dwight, Freneau and Bryant (1978) — Bidragsgivare — 30 exemplar
A New Library of Poetry & Song 2 vols. being Choice Selections from the Best Poets, English, Scottish, Irish &… (1877) 15 exemplar
The Family Library of Poetry and Song (Being Choice Selections from the best Poets..., MEMORIAL EDITION) (1870) 10 exemplar
The Story of the Fountain 8 exemplar
A Forest Hymn 5 exemplar
The Bryant birthday-book 4 exemplar
Bryant - poems of William Cullen Bryant — Författare — 4 exemplar
POEMS OF WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT American Poets Heritage Press in Slipcase (1777) — Författare — 3 exemplar
A New Library of Poetry and Song Volume II: Edited by William Cullen Bryant with his review of Poets and Poetry from… (2014) 2 exemplar
Picturesque America, or the Land We Live In, Vol. 1: A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes,… (2017) 2 exemplar
Letters from the East 2 exemplar
The Iliad Books I, VI, XXII, XXIV 1 exemplar
The Poems of Bryant 1 exemplar
A New Library of Poetry and Song, Vol. III 1 exemplar
The Family Library of Poetry and Song Part 2: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets, English, Scottish, Irish,… (2010) 1 exemplar
This Beautiful World 1 exemplar
Robert of Lincoln 1 exemplar
“Prairies” 1 exemplar
Picturesque America, or the Land We Live In, Vol. 2: A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes,… (2016) 1 exemplar
The Letters to Timothy, Titus, and Philemon 1 exemplar
Christmas in 1875 1 exemplar
A new library of poetry and song: Vol I 1 exemplar
The Library of Poetry and Song Vol. 1 1 exemplar
The white-footed deer, and other poems 1 exemplar
The Library of Poetry and Song-Vol II 1 exemplar
Unpublished poems 1 exemplar
The Divine Comedy 1 exemplar
Jewels from William Cullen Bryant 1 exemplar
Poems : collected and arranged by the author 1 exemplar
"The Pequot War," 1 exemplar
Thirty poems 1 exemplar
The fountain and other poems 1 exemplar
Selections from the American poets 1 exemplar
Scribner's Popular History of the United States, Vol. 3: From the Earliest Discoveries of the Western Hemisphere by the… (2017) 1 exemplar
Scribner's Popular History of the United States-Rom the Earliest Discoveries of the Western Hemisphere-5 Volumes (1897) 1 exemplar
Gems from Bryant 1 exemplar
To the fringed gentian 1 exemplar
Poems by William Cullen Bryant, Vol 2 1 exemplar
Poems by William Cullen Bryant, Vol 3 1 exemplar
The Odyssey of Homer, Volume I 1 exemplar
Iliad of Homer 1 exemplar
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The Tavern Lamps Are Burning: Literary Journeys through Six Regions and Four Centuries of New York State (1964) — Bidragsgivare — 19 exemplar
Representative American Short Stories — Bidragsgivare — 5 exemplar
La poesía inglesa románticos y victorianos — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
Homes of American Authors : Comprising Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches (1855) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1794-11-03
- Avled
- 1878-06-12
- Begravningsplats
- Roslyn Cemetery, Roslyn, New York, USA
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Cummington, Massachusetts, USA
- Dödsort
- New York, New York, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Great Barrington, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA - Utbildning
- Williams College
- Yrken
- poet
editor
lawyer
translator - Organisationer
- New York Evening Post
Free Soil Party
Republican Party - Priser och utmärkelser
- The Hall of Fame for Great Americans (1910)
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Bryant's Poems-Household Edition av William Cullen Bryant
Entered in Library of Congress in 1878
I bought this tome in the early 1970s at a used book sale for 25¢ (or perhaps it was $2). It's a much-loved, antique volume filled to bursting with notable pre-1870 poetry (written in English). Of course, "modern" poetry came along after the turn-of-the-century and this poetry quickly fell out of favor and became antiquated. Still, one can sentimentally indulge, can't we?
Awesome pics and engravings of the early US (1870's) in these 2 massive volumes! A must see publication, if you can fine a copy anywhere around!
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- 32
- Medlemmar
- 1,073
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- #23,964
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- 4.0
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- 116
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