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...

William Cullen Bryant is a poet of historic importance, chiefly because he 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...

William Cullen Bryant brought to American newspaper journalism not only the argumentative and rhetorical skills of the lawyer but the sensibility of the poet. His reputation as one of the few major poets of the early republic has gradually...

With the publication of The Embargo; or, Sketches of the Times; A Satire; by a Youth of Thirteen (1808) William Cullen Bryant began his remarkable career as an important figure in American politics, literature, and journalism. A satire directed at...

In 1813 William Cullen Bryant, then a law student at Yale University, had a run-in with his tutor, Samuel Howe. Howe had caught Bryant reading William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads and warned young Cullen not to waste his time. From the standpoint of...

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...