1. William Cullen Bryant - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Bryant was born in Cummington, Massachusetts the second son of Peter Bryant, a doctor and later a state legislator, and Sarah Snell. The William Cullen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cullen_Bryant

William Cullen Bryant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search William Cullen Bryant William Cullen Bryant November 3 June 12 ) an American romantic poet , journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post Contents Life Youth and education Poetry Editorial career ... edit Life edit Youth and education Bryant was born in Cummington Massachusetts the second son of Peter Bryant, a doctor and later a state legislator , and Sarah Snell. The William Cullen Bryant Homestead , his boyhood home, is now a museum. His maternal ancestry traces back to passengers on the Mayflower ; his father's, to colonists who arrived about a dozen years later. After just one year at Williams College , he studied law in Worthington and Bridgewater in Massachusetts, he was admitted to the bar in 1815. Bryant had developed an interest in poetry early in life. Under his father's tutelage, he had 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. The first edition quickly sold out—partly because of the publicity earned by the poet's young age—and a second, expanded edition, which included Bryant's translation of Classical verse, was printed. The youth wrote little poetry while preparing to enter Williams College as a sophomore, but upon leaving Williams after a single year and then beginning to read law, he regenerated his passion for poetry through encounter with the English pre-Romantics and, particularly

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Home Literary Movements Timeline American Authors ... American Literature Sites William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) Hudson River School (PowerPoint; best seen with Internet Explorer) Photograph of Bryant from the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery Information and questions from the Heath Anthology site. Publication information about Poems The William Cullen Bryant Homestead site i ncludes a picture of Bryant's house. Bibliography and study questions from Paul Reuben's PAL site. Kindred Spirits, a picture of William Cullen Bryant and Thomas Cole by Asher B. Durand (1849). Original at the New York Public Library. Image courtesy of Sandra Hildreth's NEH-supported Hudson River Paintings site. Works Available Online Poems in HTML format from bartleby.com Poems. Searchable database of the entire 1840 edition at the University of Michigan. Selected poems from this collection available from the link above, including the following: THANATOPSIS. See all selections from the Michigan MOA project on Bryant. Comments to D. Campbell

3. On William Cullen Bryant William Cullen Bryant was our first American writer of verse to win international acclaim. (Tomlinson, 30) Bryant was considered a childprodigy, http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/Bryant/brybio.html

William Cullen Bryant Essay by Wynn Yarborough, 1994 William Cullen Bryant was our " first American writer of verse to win international acclaim." (Tomlinson, 30) Bryant was considered a child-prodigy, publishing his first poem at age ten and his first book when he was thirteen, a political satire of an embargo policy of Thomas Jefferson. Bryant studied both Latin and Greek and had access to a library full of the classics, which explains many of the classical allusions in his poetry. Dr Bryant, his father, was a physician and interceded in many points of Bryant's life. He pushed Bryant towards the legal profession, helped critique and even sent his poems, without his son's approval, to literary magazines, and helped to publish his first book, Embargo . Bryant's early poetry was published in the early nineteenth century. He published poems in the North American Review. In fact this is where we first find "Thanatopsis." This early poetry seems to be written before and submitted much later; Bryant was known for editing his work for quite some time before submissions. He also published essays in which he called for a " . . . robust American literature." (Tomlinson, 33) He wanted poetry praised for its merit not its "American-ness". He was very interested in technique, publishing "On the Use of Trisyllabic Feet in Iambic Verse" in 1819. His combination of freedom and form is not seen as paradoxical:" His poetic theory and practice, founded upon romantic principles of emotional expression, naturalness, simplicity, spontaneity, irregularity, and freedom, set him squarely in the romantic movement which he anticipates in America by over a decade." (Jelliffe, p. 134)

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5. William Cullen Bryant William Cullen Bryant (17941878). picture of w.c. bryant. Midsummer; October; November; To an American Painter Departing for Europe; Mutation; William Tell http://www.sonnets.org/bryant.htm

William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) Midsummer October November To an American Painter Departing for Europe ... William Tell Midsummer A power is on the earth and in the air From which the vital spirit shrinks afraid, And shelters him, in nooks of deepest shade, From the hot steam and from the fiery glare. Look forth upon the earthher thousand plants Are smitten; even the dark sun-loving maize Faints in the field beneath the torrid blaze; The herd beside the shaded fountain pants; For life is driven from all the landscape brown; The bird has sought his tree, the snake his den, The trout floats dead in the hot stream, and men Drop by the sun-stroke in the populous town; As if the Day of Fire had dawned, and sent Its deadly breath into the firmament. October Aye, thou art welcome, heaven's delicious breath! When woods begin to wear the crimson leaf, And sons grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, And the year smiles as it draws near its death. Wind of the sunny south! oh, still delay In the gay woods and in the golden air, Like to a good old age released from care

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You are in: Museum of History Hall of North and South Americans William Cullen Bryant Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske and Stanley L. Klos. Six volumes, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887-1889 and StanKlos.com 1999. Virtualology.com warns that these 19th Century biographies contain errors and bias. We rely on volunteers to edit the historic biographies on a continual basis. If you would like to edit this biography please submit a rewritten biography in text form . If acceptable, the new biography will be published above the 19th Century Appleton's Cyclopedia Biography citing the volunteer editor. Virtual American Biographies Over 30,000 personalities with thousands of 19th Century illustrations, signatures, and exceptional life stories. Virtualology.com welcomes editing and additions to the biographies. To become this site's editor or a contributor Click Here or e-mail Virtualology here A B C ... Z Click on an image to view full-sized William Cullen Bryant The early poetical exercises of William Cullen Bryant,, like those of all young poets, were colored by the books he read. Among these were the works of Pope, and, no doubt, the works of Cowper and Thomson. The latter, if they were in the library of Dr. Bryant, do not appear to have impressed his son at this time; nor, indeed, does any English poet except Pope, so far as we can judge from his contributions to the "Hampshire Gazette." They were bookish and patriotic: one, written at Cummington, 8 January, 1810, being "The Genius of Columbia"; and another, "An Ode for the Fourth of July, 1812," to the tune of "Ye Gentlemen of England." These productions are undeniably clever, but they are not characteristic of their writer, nor of the nature that surrounded his birthplace, with which he was familiar, and of which he was a close observer.

7. William Cullen Bryant William Cullen Bryant published this, his first collection of poems, when he was twentyseven years old. Thanatopsis, the most outstanding piece in this http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/treasures/american/bryant.html

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878) Poems . Cambridge, Mass.: Hilliard and Metcalf, 182l. William Cullen Bryant published this, his first collection of poems, when he was twenty-seven years old. "Thanatopsis," the most outstanding piece in this collection of eight poems and certainly the most famous of all his verse, was first published in the Hampshire Gazette when the author was only seventeen. Another poem of note in this volume is the mystico-religious "To a Waterfowl." The manuscript for Poems was edited for publication by Richard Henry Dana, Sr. and E.T. Channing, and printed by Hilliard and Metcalf in an edition of 750 in late August or early September of 1821. Some copies were bound in boards and some in wrappers. This issue shown is an unopened copy in its brown printed wrappers. It is conjectured that only 200 copies were bound this way.

8. About William Cullen Bryant William Cullen Bryant was born in Cummington, Massachusetts, on November 3, 1794. A lawyer by training, he tired of the profession after 10 years in http://www.civilwarpoetry.org/authors/bryant.html

William Cullen Bryant was born in Cummington, Massachusetts, on November 3, 1794. A lawyer by training, he tired of the profession after 10 years in practice and moved to New York City in 1825, where he became the editor of the New York Review and Atheneum Magazine . Undaunted by the publication's failure the following year, he remained in the city and signed on as an editorial assistant with the New York Evening Post , eventually rising to part owner and editor in chief. Bryant used the Post to crusade for the causes in which he believed, among them free trade, free speech, and the abolition of slavery. A leader of the anti-slavery Free-Soil movement within the Democratic Party, he was one of the founders of the Republican Party. He was also an early political backer of Abraham Lincoln and a staunch supporter of the Union during the War Between the States. Among Bryant's major works were Thanatopsis and his own versions of The Illyiad and The Odyssey . After living a long life and amassing great wealth, Bryant died after a fall in 1878. He was 84 years old. "The Death of Abraham Lincoln" This page is http://civilwarpoetry.org/authors/bryant.html

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10. NE Colonists - William Cullen Bryant William Cullen Bryant (17941878) died at age 84 and was the longest lived of his siblings. He was a poet and editor. Bryant was born in Cummington, http://www.angelfire.com/mi4/polcrt/Bryant.html

William Cullen Bryant Written and researched by Margaret Odrowaz-Sypniewski, B.F.A. BRYANT'S FAMILY William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) died at age 84 and was the longest lived of his siblings. He was a poet and editor. Bryant was born in Cummington, Massachusetts; on November 3, 1794. His line came from Puritan stock . His father was Dr. Peter Bryant (a physican) and his mother was Sarah Snell. William's Siblings Austin Bryant (1793-1866) was born on April 16, 1973. He married Adeline Plummer. Cyrus Bryant (1799-1865) was born on July 12, 1798. He married Julia Everette. Sarah Snell Bryant (1802-1825) was born on July 24, 1802. She married Samuel Shaw (b. May 6, 1790) on September 13, 1821. Their daughter Ellen Theresa Shaw was born October 24, 1822. Ellen married Clark Ward Mitchell on August 3, 1842. Peter Rush Bryant [later known as "Arthur Bryant"] (1803-1833) was born on November 28, 1803. He married Henrietta R. Plummer. Charity Louisa Bryant (1805-1868)was born December 20, 1805. She married Justin A, Olds (b. September 4, 1806). John Howard Bryant (1807-1833) was born July 22, 1807. He married Harriet E. Wiswell.

11. William Cullen Bryant — Poet Seers William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 June 12, 1878) was an American poet and journalist. He was born in Cummington, Massachusetts, the second son of http://www.poetseers.org/early_american_poets/william_cullen_bryant

Sign up for Free Daily Poem of the Day Skip to content. Skip to navigation Site Map ... Contact Sections Search Site Home Poetic Themes The Great Poets Spiritual Poets ... About Personal tools PoetSeers Early American Poets William Cullen Bryant Navigation William Cullen Bryant W.Bryant Poems William Cullen Bryant View: William Bryant Poems William Cullen Bryant - Biography William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 - June 12, 1878) was an American poet and journalist. He was born in Cummington, Massachusetts, the second son of Peter Bryant, a prominent doctor. His ancestors on both sides came over in the Mayflower. Educated at Williams College he went on to study law at Worthington and Bridgewater, he was admitted to the bar in 1815. Interested in poetry since childhood, his first published work was a book of verse, The Embargo (1808) and his first critically acclaimed work was the poem "Thanatopsis" (1817) which appeared in the North American Review. Writing in a English romantic style and celebrating the countryside of New England his work was well received. He also wrote "Lines To a Waterfowl" Among his best known poems are also The Rivulet, The West Wind, The Forest Hymn, The Fringed Gentian. He worked as a lawyer in Northampton, Plainfield, and Great Barrington until 1825 when he married and moved to New York City and worked for the New York Review and then the New York Evening Post.

12. William Cullen Bryant - LoveToKnow 1911 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (17941878), American poet and journalist, was born at Cummington, a farming village in the Hampshire hills of western Massachusetts, http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/William_Cullen_Bryant

William Cullen Bryant From LoveToKnow 1911 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794-1878), American poet and journalist, was born at Cummington, a farming village in the Hampshire hills of western Massachusetts , on the 3rd of November 1794. He was the second son of Peter Bryant, a physician and surgeon of no mean scholarship, refined in all his tastes, and a public-spirited citizen . Peter Bryant was the greatgrandson of Stephen Bryant, an English Puritan emigrant to Massachusetts Bay about the year 1632. The poet's mother, Sarah Snell, was a descendant of " Mayflower " pilgrims. He was born in the log farmhouse built by his father two years before, at the edge of the pioneer settlement among those boundless forests, the deep stamp of whose beauty and majesty he carried on his own mind and reprinted upon the emotions of others throughout a long life spent mainly amid the activities of his country's growing metropolis . By parentage, by religious and political faith, and by hardness of fortune, the earliest of important American poets was appointed to a life typical of the first century of American national existence, and of the strongest single racial element by which that nation's social order has been moulded and promoted. Rated by the amount of time given to school books and college classes, Bryant's early education was limited. After the village school he received a year of exceptionally good training in Latin under his mother's brother, the Rev. Dr Thomas Snell, of Brookfield, followed by a year of Greek under the Rev.

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William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) Midsummer October November To an American Painter Departing for Europe Midsummer A power is on the earth and in the air From which the vital spirit shrinks afraid, And shelters him, in nooks of deepest shade, From the hot steam and from the fiery glare. Look forth upon the earthher thousand plants Are smitten; even the dark sun-loving maize Faints in the field beneath the torrid blaze; The herd beside the shaded fountain pants; For life is driven from all the landscape brown; The bird has sought his tree, the snake his den, The trout floats dead in the hot stream, and men Drop by the sun-stroke in the populous town; As if the Day of Fire had dawned, and sent Its deadly breath into the firmament. October Aye, thou art welcome, heaven's delicious breath! When woods begin to wear the crimson leaf, And sons grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, And the year smiles as it draws near its death. Wind of the sunny south! oh, still delay In the gay woods and in the golden air, Like to a good old age released from care, Journeying, in long serenity, away.

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Home Williams History Biographies William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) A member of the Class of 1813 at Williams, which he entered from preparatory school as a sophomore in 1810, at the age of sixteen. His one year at Williams, his only year of college, reinforced his love of unspoiled nature. The publication by the North American Review of his poem, "Thanatopsis," in 1817 launched him on a literary career that would make him by 1825 the country's one great poet, sometimes referred to as "the American Wordsworth" because so much of his verse was inspired by nature. In 1826 he joined the New York Evening Post as assistant editor, assuming the editorship in 1829, a post he held at the time of his death in 1878. In that long tenure he identified the Post with Jacksonian Democracy, free trade, the anti-slavery movement, Abraham Lincoln, moderate reconstruction, and reform Republicanism. Toward the end of his life he was everywhere regarded as the first citizen of New York, the friend of all good causes, who was both poet of nature and guide to the best in American journalism. His career on the Evening Post lifted journalism in the United States "from a vulgar calling to a place of high honor and national influence."

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William Cullen Bryant From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search Weep not that the world changes—did it keep A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep. William Cullen Bryant November 3 June 12 ) was an American Romantic poet and journalist. Contents Sourced Thanatopsis (1817-1821) About William Cullen Bryant Unsourced ... edit Sourced Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along. To a Waterfowl , st. 2 (1815) He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In the long way that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright. To a Waterfowl , st. 8 (1818) Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen; Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook. Oh Fairest of the Rural Maids Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race! The Ages , st. XXXIII (1821)

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Biography of William Cullen Bryant WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT was born at Cummington, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, November 3, 1794, and, after an unusually long and active literary life, he died in New York, June 12, 1878. His father was Peter Bryant, a physician of considerable literary culture, and a person who had traveled quite extensively. The father took an unusual interest in the culture of his children, and he was amply rewarded for all his pains. There is an unauthenticated tradition that the first Bryant of whom there is any account in America, came over in the Mayflower. Mr. Stephen Bryant came over from England, and was settled at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1836. Stephen's son Ichabod was the father of Philip Bryant and Philip, of Peter, the father of William Cullen. Bryant's mother was Miss Sarah Snell, of Mayflower stock, being a descendant of John Alden. Thus our poet has an honorable and cultured ancestry. Strict Puritanical discipline was the order of the day, hence the young poet's life did not fall in pleasant places, so far as recreations were concerned. While the children were held with a steady hand, their educational and moral interests were considered with conscientious earnestness. "in flowery June When brooks send up a cheerful tune

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PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project Paul P. Reuben (To send an email, please click on my name above.) Chapter 3: William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) Outside Link: Bryant Homestead, Museum House, Bryant Memorabilia Page Links: Primary Works Selected Bibliography Study Questions MLA Style Citation of this Web Page ... A Brief Biography Site Links: Chap 3: Index Authors Alphabetical List Table Of Contents Home Page March 25, 2007 Source Civil War Poetry Primary Works "Thanatopsis," September, 1817, published in The North American Review Poems The Poetical Works of WCB Poems; with explanatory notes. WCB and Oliver Bell Bunce. Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, canons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country. With illustrations on steel and wood by eminent American artists. 2 vols. NY: D. Appleton, 1872-1874. Case / Folio E168 .B89 A new library of poetry and song.

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