The ancestry of William Cullen Bryant might have been inferred from the character of his writings, which reflect whatever is best and noblest in the life and thought of New England. It was a tradition that the first Bryant of whom there is any account in the annals of the New...
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"Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant" from William Cullen Bryant. American romantic poet, journalist (1794 - 1878).
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
" ...]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...