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Author : Robert Cassie Waterston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Poets, American
ISBN : UCAL:$B158351
Author : Robert Cassie Waterston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:03002665
Author : R. c. 1812-1893 Waterston
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1342208617
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Author : Robert C. Waterston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1331415993
Excerpt from Tribute to William Cullen Bryant: At the Meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society, June 13, 1878; With an Appendix It is difficult to express the sense of loss which comes to us in the death of William Cullen Bryant. He has so tong been the object of our veneration and love, that he seemed to have become an essential part of our life. Few of us can remember when his name did not stand pre-eminent in our literature. It is now more than sixty years since his "Thanatopsis" was published, which at once gained a reputation that has never since been questioned. From that time, his active public career has kept his name constantly before the community, and always on the side of patriotism, justice, and humanity. With an inflexible purpose, he has vindicated What he felt to be right. Whatever seemed to him connected with the best interests of humanity was dear to his heart. There was hardly an enterprise associated with human progress with which his name had not become identified. Venerable in age, he still had the fresh energy of youth; and, though he had arrived at a period of life when most men feel that they may retire from active service, he sought no relaxation from duty, he asked no exemption from the weight of personal responsibility. With breadth of thought and profoundness of conviction, he could adapt himself to the immediate wants of the time, bringing to each occasion what was most needed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : William Cullen Bryant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWSQFS
Author : William Cullen Bryant
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1505448956
"[...]her eyes to the face of Dr. Bryant, burst into tears—a tribute to the genius of his son in which he was not ashamed to join. Blackstone bade his Muse a long adieu before he turned to wrangling courts and stubborn law; and our young lawyer intended to do the same (for poetry was starvation in America seventy years ago), but habit and nature were too strong for him. There is no difficulty in tracing the succession of his poems, and in a few instances the places where they were written, or with which they concerned themselves. "Thanatopsis," for example, was[...]".
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015025344014
Author : William Cullen Bryant,Thomas G. Voss
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780823287307
On April 26, 1865, as Abraham Lincoln's funeral cortege paused in Union Square, New York, before being taken by rail to Springfield, Illinois, William Cullen Bryant listened as his own verse elegy for the slain president was read to a great concourse of mourners by the Reverend Samuel Osgood. Only five years earlier and a few blocks downtown, at Cooper Union, Bryant had introduced the prairie candidate to his first eastern audience. There his masterful appeal to the conscience of the nation prepared the way for his election to the presidency on the verge of the Civil War. Now, Bryant stood below Henry Kirke Brown's equestrian statue of George Washington, impressing Osgood as if he were "the 19tth Century itself thinking over the nation and the age in that presence." Bryant's staunch support of the Union cause throughout the war, and of Lincoln's war efforts, no less than his known influence with the president, led several prominent public figures to urge that he write Lincoln's biography. Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote him, "No man combines the qualities for his biographer so completely as yourself and the finished task would be a noble crown to a noble literary life." But Bryant declined, declaring his inability to record impartially critical events in which he had taken so central a part. Furthermore, while preoccupied with the editorial direction of the New York Evening Post, he was just then repossessing and enlarging his family's homestead at Cummington, Massachusetts, where he hoped his ailing wife might, during long summers in mountain air, regain her health. But in July 1866, Frances died of recurrent rheumatic fever, and, Bryant confessed to Richard Dana, he felt as "one cast out of Paradise." After France's death Bryant traveled with his daughter Julia for nearly a year through Great Britain and the Continent, where he met British statesman and novelist Edward Bulwer Lytton and French literary critic Hyppolyte Taine, renewed his friendship with Spanish poet Carolina Coronado, Italian liberator Giuseppe Garibaldi, and British and American artists, and visited the family of the young French journalist Georges Clemenceau, as well as the graves of earlier acquaintances Francis Lord Jeffrey and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In his spare moments Bryant sought solace by beginning the translation of Homer, and Longfellow had found relief after his wife's tragic death by rendering into English Dante's Divine Comedy. Home again in New York, Bryant bought and settled in a house at 24 West 16th Street which would be his city home for the rest of his life. Here he completed major publications, including the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer and an exhaustive Library of Poetry and Song, and added to published tributes to earlier friends, such as Thomas Cole, Fenimore Cooper, and Washington Irving, memorial discourses on Fitz-Greene Halleck and Gulian Verplanck. In addition to his continued direction of the New York Homeopathic Medical college and the American Free Trade League, he was elected to the presidency of the Williams College Alumni Association, the International Copyright Association, and the Century Association, the club of artists and writers of which, twenty years earlier, he had been a principal founder and which he would direct for the last decade of his life.
Author : William Cullen Bryant,Thomas G. Voss
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 651 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780823287246
The second volume of William Cullen Bryant's letters opens in 1836 as he has just returned to New York from an extended visit to Europe to resume charge of the New York Evening Post, brought near to failure during his absence by his partner William Leggett's mismanagement. At the period's close, Bryant has found in John Bigelow an able editorial associate and astute partner, with whose help he has brought the paper close to its greatest financial prosperity and to national political and cultural influence. Bryant's letters lf the years between show the versatility of his concern with the crucial political, social, artistic, and literary movements of his time, and the varied friendships he enjoyed despite his preoccupation with a controversial daily paper, and with the sustenance of a poetic reputation yet unequaled among Americans. As president of the New York Homeopathic Society, in letters and editorials urging widespread public parks, and in his presidency of the New York Society for the Abolition of the Punishment of Death, he gave attention to public health, recreation, and order. He urged the rights of labor, foreign and religious minorities, and free African Americans; his most powerful political effort of the period was in opposition to the spread of slavery through the conquest of Mexico. An early commitment to free trade in material goods was maintained in letters and editorials, and to that in ideas by his presidency of the American Copyright Club and his support of the efforts of Charles Dickens and Harriet Martineau to secure from the United States Congress and international copyright agreement. Bryant's first visit to Great Britain came at the height of his poetic and journalistic fame in 1845, bringing him into cordial intimacy with members of Parliament, scientists, journalists, artists, and writers. In detailed letters to his wife, published here for the first time, he describes the pleasures he took in breakfasting with the literary patron Samuel Rogers and the American minister Edward Everett, boating on the Thames with artists and with diarist Henry Crabb Robinson, spending an evening in the home of Leigh Hunt, and calling on the Wordsworths at Rydal Mount as well as in the distinctions paid him at a rally of the Anti-Corn-Law League in Covent Garden Theatre, and at the annual meeting in Cambridge of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Equally fresh are most of the letters to prominent Americans, many of them his close friends, such as the two Danas, Bancroft, Cole, Cooper, Dewey, Dix, Downing, Durand, Forrest, Greenough, Irving, Longfellow, Simms, Tilden, Van Buren, and Weir. His letters to the Evening Post recounting his observations and experiences during travels abroad and in the South, West, and Northeast of the United States, which were copied widely in other newspapers and praised highly by many of their subscribers, are here made available to the present-day reader.
Author : William Cullen Bryant
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0823209946
The years just before and during the Civil War marked the high point of Bryant's influence on public affairs, which had grown steadily since the Evening Post had upheld the democratic Jacksonian revolution of the 1830s. A founder of the Free Soil Party in 1848 and the Republican Party in 1856, Bryant was lauded in 1857 by Virginia anti-slavery leader John Curtis Underwood, who wrote to Eli Thayer, "What a glory it would be to our country if it could elect this man to the Presidency-the country not he would be honored & elevated by such an event." In 1860 Bryant helped secure the Presidential nomination for Abraham Lincoln, and was instrumental in the choice of two key members of his cabinet, Salmon Chase as Secretary of the Treasury, and Gideon Welles as Secretary of the Navy. During disheartening delays and defeats in the early war years, direct communications from Union field commanders empowered his editorial admonitions to such a degree that the conductor of a national magazine concluded that the Evening Post's "clear and able political leaders have been of more service to the government of this war than some of its armies." Bryant's correspondence with statesmen further reflects the immediacy of his concern with military and political decisions. There are thirty-five known letters to Lincoln, and thirty-two to Chase, Welles, war secretary Stanton, and Senators Fessenden, Morgan, and Sumner. This seven-year passage in Bryant's life, beginning with his wife's critical illness at Naples in 1858, concludes with a unique testimonial for his seventieth birthday in November 1864. The country's leading artists and writers entertained him at a "Festival" in New York's Century Club, giving him a portfolio of pictures by forty-six painters as a token of the "sympathy" he had "ever manifested toward the Artists," and the "high rank" he had "ever accorded to art." Poets Emerson, Holmes, Longfellow, Lowell, and Whittier saluted him in prose and verse. Emerson saw him as "a true painter of the face of this country"; Holmes, as the "first sweet singer in the cage of our close-woven life." To Whittier, his personal and public life sounded "his noblest strain." And in the darkest hours of the war, said Lowell, he had "remanned ourselves in his own manhood's store," had become "himself our bravest crown."
Author : John Bigelow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433082339239
Author : JOHN BIGELOW
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Edward K. Spann
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1973-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438420745
Ideals and Politics is a group biography that examines the shifting personal, moral, and intellectual relationships of several prominent Americans from 1820 to 1880. It considers the divergent social visions of William Cullen Bryant, James Fenimore Cooper, William Leggett, Gulian C. Verplanck, Parke Goodwin, and members of the Sedgwick family in an effort to understand various attitudes within a basic liberal democratic ideology, amid the changing demands and opportunities of an American pluralistic society. The members of this group left a considerable record of newspaper editorials, novels, poems, essays, and letters from which the author draws judiciously to illustrate his subjects, whose involvement in the political and social questions of their day demanded from them efforts to reconcile their ideals with political realities. The author discusses in detail the positions of Bryant and the others regarding the issues of government economic policy, the roles of parties and newspapers in a democratic society, poverty, and slavery and race. At another level, this book illustrates the fundamental attitudinal differences that exist beneath the apparent ideological conformity of Americans. Although based on some new information and sound interpretation, the greatest value of this book is in its approach—a group biography which emphasizes not only the members of the group but their relationships with one another. The author succeeds in giving essential human meaning to the major developments of the period.
Author : Charles Henry Brown
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003800294
"Creates a detailed portrait of the American poet, emphasizing his literary and political achievements which shaped the nation's culture and history." -- Amazon.com
Author : William Cullen Bryant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z257535905