The Letters of William Cullen Bryant Volume I, 1809-1836 |
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Editor:
| Bryant, William Cullen Voss, Thomas G. Bryant, William Cullen |
ISBN: | 978-0-8232-0991-0 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1975 |
Publisher: | Fordham University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $85.00 |
Book Description:
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William Cullen Bryant's collected poems, previously published at New York, Boston, and London, were going into their third edition. His incisive editorials in the New York Evening Post were affecting the decisions of Andrew Jackson's administration. His poetic themes were beginning to find expression in the landscape paintings of Robert Weir, Asher Durand, and Thomas Cole.Here, in essence, is the first volume of the autobiography of one whom Abraham Lincoln remarked after his first...
More DescriptionWilliam Cullen Bryant's collected poems, previously published at New York, Boston, and London, were going into their third edition. His incisive editorials in the New York Evening Post were affecting the decisions of Andrew Jackson's administration. His poetic themes were beginning to find expression in the landscape paintings of Robert Weir, Asher Durand, and Thomas Cole.Here, in essence, is the first volume of the autobiography of one whom Abraham Lincoln remarked after his first visit to New York City in 1860, It was worth the journey to the East merely to see such a man.And John Bigelow, who of Bryant's many eulogists knew him best, said in 1878 of his longtime friend and business partner, There was no eminent American upon whom the judgment of his countrymen would be more immediate and unanimous. The broad simple outline of his character and career had become universally familiar, like a mountain or a sea.