William Cullen Bryant: An American VoiceAntoca, 2006 - 198 頁 Simply stated, this book will introduce the surprising literary figure behind a familiar name. Though a mere vestige of William Cullen Bryant’s fame survives through inclusion of “Thanatopsis” and perhaps one or two other poems in school anthologies, the nineteenth century celebrated him as one of its great men. He not only deserved that acclaim, but he was actually a more important writer than his century recognized. Half of this volume consists of a Bryant showcase. Three dozen poems chosen from the hundreds he produced reveal him as a revolutionary of prosody seeking refuge from Calvinism in a pantheistic God. Extracts from his criticism are a homily promoting the prospects for American literary nationalism. Also included here is a pair of his tales which, although almost totally unknown, are among the best work in the genre written before the Civil War. The other half of this new volume presents a concise biography and, of special interest, three groundbreaking new critical studies. Gado argues that Bryant is the Founding Father of American poetry. As a poet of nature, Bryant played a literary role comparable to the influence on art exercised by his good friend Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School. But perhaps even more important was the example Bryant set for Walt Whitman in a relationship explored here for the first time. A much briefer piece discovers the consistent philosophical belief addressed by a lifetime of poems. The third essay is unique in its consideration of Bryant’s short fiction, which has never before received attention. William Cullen Bryant: An American Voice is a landmark publication. |
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... boughs , instinct with life , Patient , and waiting the soft breath of Spring , Feared not the piercing spirit of the North . The snow - bird twittered on the beechen bough , And ' neath the hemlock , whose thick branches bent Beneath ...
... boughs , instinct with life , Patient , and waiting the soft breath of Spring , Feared not the piercing spirit of the North . The snow - bird twittered on the beechen bough , And ' neath the hemlock , whose thick branches bent Beneath ...
第 105 頁
... boughs , and a shower of acorns would rattle down ; and the long branches would lash the roof , till it seemed to him as if all the fiends of the woodland had fastened upon the old log cabin , and were going to fly away with it . Walter ...
... boughs , and a shower of acorns would rattle down ; and the long branches would lash the roof , till it seemed to him as if all the fiends of the woodland had fastened upon the old log cabin , and were going to fly away with it . Walter ...
第 109 頁
... boughs of the great oak . He was thinking that on the whole he had little reason to thank the kindness of his super- natural friend . " She has made me a handsome fellow , " thought he , " but what of that ? If I had not been handsome ...
... boughs of the great oak . He was thinking that on the whole he had little reason to thank the kindness of his super- natural friend . " She has made me a handsome fellow , " thought he , " but what of that ? If I had not been handsome ...
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BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT | 15 |
To the Fringed Gentian 1829 | 73 |
Earths Children Cleave to Earth 1835? | 91 |
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