See also: William Cullen, Bryant

William Cullen Bryant (November 3rd 1794 - June 12th 1878) was a romantic poet and American journalist.

It was born with Cullington in the Massachusetts, the second wire of Peter Bryant, a prestigious doctor; its birthplace, where it spent its summers, now became a Musée. Its ancestors, on the side of his father and his mother, came on the Mayflower. Educated with the College Williams, he studied the Droit to Worthington and with Bridgewater and he was allowed with the bar in 1815.

Bryant was interested by the Poésie since its tender childhood. Its first book of versification, The Embargo , was published in 1808. It published its first Poème as of age the ten years. At the seventeen years age, Bryant began its first great work, the Thanatopsis , which appeared in the North American Review in 1817. It was improved and widened as the years passed. The subject of the Thanatopsis is the common and unifying destiny of the Mort for humanity. The Thanatopsis was one of the poems most read of its time. Bryant also wrote Lines To has Waterfowl . The work of Bryant, written in the Romantic style English, celebrates the rurality of the New England. It was accepted from the public. Among this most known poems appear The Rivulet , The West Wind , The Forest Hymn and The Fringed Gentian .

He exerted the trade of lawyer to Northhampton, Plainfield and Great Barrington until in 1825 when he Maria and moved with New York to work with the New York Review then with the New York Evening Post.

Initially an associated editor association, he became editor association in 1829 and preserved this station until his death. Its newspaper was liberal and free trade and he was savagely opposed to the Esclavage.

Bryant was a political partisan during all his life, initially in favor of “Free Soil Party”, then in favor of the Republican party. He was an enthusiastic supportor of the presidential candidate of Abraham Lincoln in 1860.

Also, Bryant founded the Medical Board of New York in 1860.

Towards the end of its life, Bryant concentrated to analyze and translate the traditional Greeks and Latin, like Iliade and the Odyssey of Homère.

Bryant died in 1878 of the complications following an accidental fall.

The Poésie of Bryant tender and gracious, is filled of a contemplative melancholy and a Amour for the loneliness and the silence of the Forêt. Although it was high to admire Pope, and even imitated it in its youth, it was one of the first poets américians to exert his own influence. It had a great direction of the duty and was admired by its fellow-citizens.

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