Poems, Collected and Arranged by the Author. With an Introductory Essay, on the Genius & Writings of the Author, by George Gilfillan.

BRYANT, William Cullen

Edité par Liverpool: John Walker:, First edition thus,, 1850

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8vo, xviii, 275pp + 1pp ads, half-title present, a.e.g., contemp. full morocco, inner gilt decorated borders, double gilt ruled outer borders with inset elaborate ornate gilt decoration, elaborate gilt decoration to spine in compartments, slightly rubbed mainly on one outer corner. A generally VG+ clean copy in a handsome binding. Poet and editor William Cullen Bryant stood among the most celebrated figures in the frieze of 19th-century America. The fame he won as a poet while in his youth remained with him as he entered his 80s; only Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Ralph Waldo Emerson were his rivals in popularity over the course of his life. Thanatopsis, if not the best-known American poem abroad before the mid 19th century, certainly ranked near the top of the list, and at home school children were commonly required to recite it from memory. Bryant served as editor of the New-York Evening Post for 50 years. At his death, all of New York City went into mourning for its most respected citizen, and eulogies poured forth as they had for no man of letters since Washington Irving, its native son, had died a generation earlier. The similarity was appropriate: Irving brought international legitimacy to American fiction; Bryant alerted the English-speaking world to an American voice in poetry.

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• Titre: Poems, Collected and Arranged by the Author. With an Introductory Essay, on the Genius & Writings of the Author, by George Gilfillan.
• Éditeur: Liverpool: John Walker:, First edition thus,
• Date de parution: 1850
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • American Literature
  • Literature
  • Poetry