The complete online text of Letters of a Traveller by William Cullen Bryant.

The American poet and newspaper editor William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) helped introduce European romanticism into American poetry. As an editor, he championed liberal causes. He was one of the most influential and popular figures of mid-19th-century Am...

No line of his poetry survives in the consciousness of his nation, and none of his editorial pronouncements still resonate from his five decades with the New-York Evening Post; yet, no frieze interpreting nineteenth-century intellectual America is thinka...

William Cullen Bryant was the first American writer of verse to win wide international acclaim. His talent asserted itself quite early. He wrote and was published while still a child; but under his father's tutelage, he had learned to write carefully and...

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