The Poetry of William Cullen Bryant - Volume 2 - The Later Poems: “Truth crushed to earth shall rise again.”
3/5
()
About this ebook
On January 11, 1821, he married Frances Fairchild. With an invitation to address the Harvard University Phi Beta Kappa Society he wrote "The Ages", a panorama in verse of the history of civilization, culminating in the establishment of the United States. That poem led a collection, entitled Poems, which he arranged to publish on the same trip to Cambridge. His career as a poet was thus launched. Even so, it was not until 1832, when an expanded Poems was published in the U.S. and, with the assistance of Washington Irving, in Britain, that he won recognition as America's leading poet. However writing poetry wasn’t paid well enough to sustain his family and from 1816 to 1825, he continued to practice law in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In 1825, he was hired as editor, first at the New-York Review, then the United States Review and Literary Gazette. After two years of great effort to breathe life into periodicals, he became Assistant Editor of the New-York Evening Post, originally founded by Alexander Hamilton, that was surviving precariously. Within two years, he was Editor-in-Chief and part owner. He remained the Editor-in-Chief until 1878. Eventually, the Evening-Post became the foundation of his fortune and the means to exercise political power in the city, state, and nation. An early supporter of organized labor, he became known as a defender of religious minorities and immigrants, and an outspoken critic of slavery. Ironically, the boy who first tasted fame for his poetic assault against Thomas Jefferson and his party became one of it’s key supporters in the Northeast of that self-same party. Bryant's views, always progressive though not populist, led him to join the Free Soilers, which became the core of the new Republican Party in 1856. By 1860, he was one of the noted Eastern supporters of Abraham Lincoln, whom he introduced at Cooper Union. (Lincoln’s speech there pushed him to the nomination, and then the presidency.) In his last decade, Bryant shifted from writing his own poetry to a blank verse translation of Homer's ‘Iliad’ and ‘The Odyssey’ from 1871 to 1874. He is also remembered as one of the principal authorities on homeopathy and as a hymnist for the Unitarian Church — both legacies of his father's enormous influence on him. William Cullen Bryant died on June 12th, 1878 of complications from an accidental fall. He is buried at Roslyn Cemetery in Roslyn, Long Island, New York.
Read more from William Cullen Bryant
The Poetry of William Cullen Bryant - Volume 1: "Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place." Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Fireside Poets. A Movement in Verse Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to The Poetry of William Cullen Bryant - Volume 2 - The Later Poems
Related ebooks
The Eve of Revolution Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPoems Of Power: "The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind." Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Poetry of Laurence Binyon - Volume XII: The Cause of War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume II: Jewish Poems and Translations Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSpirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAdonais - An Elegy on the Death of John Keats Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Visions of Columbus: 'And gave the admiring world that bounteous shore, Their wealth to Nations and to Kings their power'' Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOctober, A Month In Verse Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAlcyone & Other Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Poets of the 18th Century - Volume 3: Volume III – Thomas Parnell to Ann Yearsley Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Missionary: "Now Fate, vindictive, rolls, with refluent flood, Back on thy shores the tide of human blood" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Poetry of Algernon Charles Swinburne - Volume IV: Songs of Two Nations Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Poetry of Algernon Charles Swinburne - Volume III: Songs Before Sunrise Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPersephone: "All that was ever lovely to mankind." Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Poetry of Laurence Binyon - Volume XIII: The New World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMiscellany of Poetry: 1919 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPrometheus Unbound: “Soul meets soul on lovers lips.” Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Spirits in bondage; a cycle of lyrics Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Poems Of Progress: "Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it." Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLeaves of Grass Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Songs before Sunrise Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Poetry Of Phyllis Wheatley: “Through thickest gloom look back, immortal shade, On that confusion which thy death has made.” Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMarmion: A Tale of Flodden Field Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe English Review: July 1921 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMiscellany Poems on Several Occasions: 'Alas! a woman that attempts the pen, Such an intruder on the rights of men'' Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Abolitionist Poems: “Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.” Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTiresias Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Poetry of Algernon Charles Swinburne - Volume XVIII: Various Poems Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Locusts: "Love's tongue is in the eyes" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Poetry For You
Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beyond Thoughts: An Exploration Of Who We Are Beyond Our Minds Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Daily Stoic: A Daily Journal On Meditation, Stoicism, Wisdom and Philosophy to Improve Your Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Inward Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Way Forward Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Love Her Wild: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pillow Thoughts II: Healing the Heart Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Selected Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You Better Be Lightning Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Prophet Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Complete Works Of Oscar Wilde Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dream Work Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Twenty love poems and a song of despair Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Enough Rope: Poems Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Divine Comedy: Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leaves of Grass: 1855 Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy, Book One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Odyssey Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTao Te Ching: A New English Version Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Gilgamesh: A New English Version Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Collection Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Odyssey: (The Stephen Mitchell Translation) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beowulf: A New Translation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Poems of John Keats (with an Introduction by Robert Bridges) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Weary Blues Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for The Poetry of William Cullen Bryant - Volume 2 - The Later Poems
1 rating0 reviews
Book preview
The Poetry of William Cullen Bryant - Volume 2 - The Later Poems - William Cullen Bryant
c6DĿ()vjA_C__|Rf6ƚLeW!K15
WH,jy@WIY@meJڕX@M+&mF$`^[zL^\
_2ёDV3tmTV.(
L~ZcN#E:8oWsqǟts,tӱl !\
ѳ"NexZLI=o CM;x~p&W[PF6ˉVwU_#㗼|Qy`!A#q-S 8~ƔfqHSJq_ V&0܀k3U]-m>hchYò~k'E^uC$-YojMA>6kʘl!I#w2{L`Jԉo;N-,=3Zw$`FkxFEcc;{G;ZV
шo$F9q8GzKZv{:F$p֑8;j.2L!3[- &vTt䴓{w.-P~: 6
@CȬ^3{zr
q"EJy.Ї홺6%&>ݷ)6 xc(ng(=G3B(4N:2KvD\`z`ckxs ُ\vcTމ&x[{rWlq$b)͇&%Vw0|ɽE$XߴP925'~0wE1N'|} KdǗp
˿=*=xh7
uq']zURm{4aL6eou\QnD8iρB:#t6*͛ZsWkЉ( 5v_y%~sW˻㯃:5D `
Y^ӠwfnA@`o}ªځBQXHj1"-:`@ЋBh\a[&ֻ
YΓvg9>IL$LF_7L0,8#e
ƺyYxd@-ei1ͩ+:^V? 9=B-] ?Z4䠟w
WΔyK4}hW;Z뾅\`:q<NU!slލ߯cjGԀL,1Px%K