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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 1 : travellers and observers, 1763 -1846 (search)
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 5 : Bryant and the minor poets (search)
Chapter 5: Bryant and the minor poets William Ellery Leonard, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English in the University of Wisconsin.
I. Bryant
Early years.
Bryant's Independence as a poet.
the unity of his life and work.
his ideas.
nature in Bryant.
Bryant's images.
his surveys.
Bryant as naturalist.
his fairy poems.
his translations.
his artistry.
his style.
limitations as a poet.
Bryant as critic and editor.
his prose style.
Bryant the Citizen.
To the old-f lyric cry; and once at least he wrought a little gem-his simple stanzas on Seneca Lake.
He typified, too, a not altogether ignoble phase of earlier American culture in his zealous acquisitiveness, both in science (he died as state geologist of Wisconsin), and in languages (he wrote verse in Scandinavian and German, and translated from innumerable tongues). But he belongs chiefly to the student of human nature; lonely, shy, unmarried, disappointed, poor, and dirty, he was in appearance and mode