Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant

By William Cullen Bryant

Book Overview

" ...]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 ...]."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1505448956
• ISBN13: 9781505448955
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"