The Letters of William Cullen Bryant: 1836-1849Fordham Univ Press, 1975 - 568 頁 The second volume of William Cullen Bryant's letters opens in 1836 as he has just returned to New York from an extended visit to Europe to resume charge of the New York Evening Post, brought near to failure during his absence by his partner William Leggett's mismanagement. At the period's close, Bryant has found in John Bigelow an able editorial associate and astute partner, with whose help he has brought the paper close to its greatest financial prosperity and to national political and cultural influence. Bryant's letters show the versatility of his concern with the crucial political, social, artistic, and literary movements of his time, and the varied friendships he enjoyed despite his preoccupation with a controversial daily paper, and with the sustenance of a poetic reputation yet unequaled among Americans. As president of the New York Homeopathic Society, in letters and editorials urging widespread public parks, and in his presidency of the New York Society for the Abolition of the Punishment of Death, he gave attention to public health, recreation, and order. He urged the rights of labor, foreign and religious minorities, and free African Americans; his most powerful political effort of the period was in opposition to the spread of slavery through the conquest of Mexico. An early commitment to free trade in material goods was maintained in letters and editorials, and to that in ideas by his presidency of the American Copyright Club and his support of the efforts of Charles Dickens and Harriet Martineau to secure from the United States Congress and international copyright agreement. Bryant's first visit to Great Britain came at the height of his poetic and journalistic fame in 1845, bringing him into cordial intimacy with members of Parliament, scientists, journalists, artists, and writers. In detailed letters to his wife, published here for the first time, he describes the pleasures he took in breakfasting with the literary patron Samuel Rogers and the American minister Edward Everett, boating on the Thames with artists and with diarist Henry Crabb Robinson, spending an evening in the home of Leigh Hunt, and calling on the Wordsworths at Rydal Mount as well as in the distinctions paid him at a rally of the Anti-Corn-Law League in Covent Garden Theatre, and at the annual meeting in Cambridge of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Equally fresh are most of the letters to prominent Americans, many of them his close friends, such as the two Danas, Bancroft, Cole, Cooper, Dewey, Dix, Downing, Durand, Forrest, Greenough, Irving, Longfellow, Simms, Tilden, Van Buren, and Weir. His letters to the Evening Post recounting his observations and experiences during travels abroad and in the South, West, and Northeast of the United States, which were copied widely in other newspapers and praised highly by many of their subscribers, are here made available to the present-day reader. The Letters of William Cullen Bryant: Volume II, 1836-1849 is available from the publisher on an open-access basis. |
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... thing over 400 letters , of which 352 appear in this volume . While a growing number acknowledge invitations to read a poem or deliver a lecture , or requests for an autograph or literary advice , or notifications of election to ...
... thing of the Pegasus in me I am too much exhausted to use my wings . " And , after even a longer silence , " You are so kind as to wish to be informed about my literary projects . I have no time for such things . " He did make one new ...
... thing and directed leeches to be applied . I found Dr. Roe very well - he has left off chewing tobacco and having made some fortunate purchases in real estate is become a man of substance . The leeches did me good , the bile began ...
... thing in New York is become exorbitantly dear - wages , rents , provisions — the latter have risen one half - but now that the Hudson is open ( it was closed till three days ago ) it is thought they will decline somewhat in price ...
... thing I can think of as likely to interest you . I fear my next letter will not be so long as this as I shall have left little news for the next time . You will continue I hope to write to me regularly once a fortnight even if you ...
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A Place in the Country 18431844 LETTERS 446 to 517 | 189 |
Europe Revisited 1845 LETTERS 518 to 566 | 285 |
New York and Elsewhere 18461847 LETTERS 567 to 633 | 417 |
Kindred Spirits 18481849 LETTERS 634 to 666 | 512 |