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...

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...

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...

One letter in the recent edition of the letters of William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) reads as follows: 2405. To the Editor of SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE The Evening Post Broadway and Fulton Street New York, June 19, 1876 Dear Sir. I...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 The Background For Literature Beginnings: Poetry sprang up slowly in America because the majority of men and women in Virginia, New England, and the other new colonies were simple, hard-working people faced with the hard tasks of a new life. The...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

Analysis of William Cullen Bryant's poetry