William Cullen Bryant
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William Cullen Bryant was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New-York Evening Post. Born in Massachusetts, he started his career as a lawyer but showed an interest in p
Cabinet card of Bryant by José Maria Mora, c. 1876
Engraving of Bryant, c. 1843
An 1867 portrait of Hiram Powers and Bryant, now housed at the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C.
Kindred Spirits, an 1849 portrait by Asher Durand, depicting Bryant with Thomas Cole
Thanatopsis
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"Thanatopsis" is an early poem by the American poet William Cullen Bryant. Meaning 'a consideration of death', the word is derived from the Greek 'thanatos' and 'opsis'.
William Cullen Bryant
…poetry, but encounters with the Graveyard Poets and then William Wordsworth regenerated his passion for what Bryant called "the witchery of song." "Thanatopsis" is Bryant's most famous poem, which Bryant may have been working on as early as 1811. In 1817, his father took some pages of verse from his son's desk…
An 1878 portrait of William Cullen Bryant