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Biography

Name: William Cullen Bryant
Birth Date: November 3, 1794
Death Date: June 12, 1878
Place of Birth: Cummington, Massachusetts, United States
Place of Death: New York, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: poet, editor

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Biography of William Cullen Bryant
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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...
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Biography of William Cullen Bryant
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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...
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Biography of William Cullen Bryant
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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...
 


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William Cullen Bryant ( November 3 , 1794 - June 12 , 1878 ) was an American Romantic poet and journalist. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Thanatopsis (1817-1821) 2 About William Cullen Bryant 3 Unsourced 4 External links // Sourced Vainly the fowler's eye...


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William Cullen Bryant Information
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William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 - June 12, 1878) an American romantic poet, journalist, political adviser, and...


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Marjabelle Young Stewart dies age 82
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Proper manners authority Marjabelle Young Stewart, the author of more than 20 books and ruler of the "White Gloves" and "Blue Blazers" children's etiquette empires, has died. She was 82.Stewart, who was also famous for the annual list of best-mannered cities she began issuing in...
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Much has recently been made of the complaisance of boards of directors with respect to outrageous goings-on within the enterprises they're supposed to watch over on behalf of the stockholders: fun and games encompassing everything from looting and fraud to weight-in-gold pay packages that the...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Albert F. McLean
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In the excerpt below, McLean focuses on Bryant's poetic theory and poetic technique, observing a distinct division between the poet's artistic intention and his poetic achievement.
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Critical Essay by R. Rio-Jelliffe
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In the following essay, Rio-Jelliffe considers the traditional and innovative elements of "Thanatopsis, " examining its relationship to Bryant's own poetic theory and to the subsequent development of American literature.
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Critical Essay by David J. Moriarty
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In the following essay, originally presented at the 1978 Centennial Conference at Hofstra University, Moriarty re-evaluates Bryant's poetic imagery from a modernist point of view, suggesting that the poet's nature images are still alive, renewable, suggestive, for the reader of today.
 
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The Poetry of William Cullen Bryant
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Analysis of William Cullen Bryant's poetry


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