Research Catalog

Title

William Cullen Bryant : an American voice / edited by Frank Gado, in conjunction with Nicholas B. Stevens.

Author

Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878

Publication

Hartford, VT : Antoca ; Hanover : Distributed by University Press of New England, c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gado, Frank.
• Stevens, Nicholas B.

Description

ix, 198 p. : port.; 23 cm.

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Alternative Title

Works.

Subject

• Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878
• American poetry > 19th century

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Prolegomenon -- Biographical overview
• POEMS. "They taught me, and it was a fearful creed" -- Thanatopsis -- The yellow violet -- "I cannot forget with what fervid devotion" -- Inscription for the entrance to a wood -- To a waterfowl -- "This grassy slope, this ancient tree" -- Green river -- A winter piece -- "O fairest of the rural maids" -- Hymn to death -- The early anemone -- The rivulet -- Summer wind -- Love's seasons -- Mutation -- To a mosquito -- A scene on the banks of the Hudson -- "I broke the spell that held me long" -- October -- A forest hymn -- June -- To the fringed gentian -- November -- The two graves -- The prairies -- The knight's epitaph -- The living lost -- The old man's counsel -- An evening revery [i.e., reverie] -- The snow-shower -- "Earth's children cleave to earth" -- The planting of the apple-tree -- The third of November -- The poet -- The path
• FICTION. A Pennsylvania legend -- The Indian spring
• BRYANT'S CRITICISM. extracts from Originality and imitation -- from Poetry and its relationship to our age and country -- America and its novel
• Critical commentary : The founding father of American poetry ; "The eternal flow of things" ; Bryant's short fiction -- a road abandoned / by Frank Gado.

ISBN

• 1584656190 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781584656197 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2006025000

OCLC

• 70831022
• SCSB-11764134

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library