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    The Poetry of William Cullen Bryant - Volume 2 - The Later Poems: “Truth crushed to earth shall rise again.”
    The Poetry of William Cullen Bryant - Volume 2 - The Later Poems: “Truth crushed to earth shall rise again.”
    The Poetry of William Cullen Bryant - Volume 2 - The Later Poems: “Truth crushed to earth shall rise again.”
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    On January 11, 1821, he married Frances Fairchild. With an invitation to address the Harvard University Phi Beta Kappa Society he wrote "The Ages", a panorama in verse of the history of civilization, culminating in the establishment of the United States. That poem led a collection, entitled Poems, which he arranged to publish on the same trip to Cambridge. His career as a poet was thus launched. Even so, it was not until 1832, when an expanded Poems was published in the U.S. and, with the assistance of Washington Irving, in Britain, that he won recognition as America's leading poet. However writing poetry wasn’t paid well enough to sustain his family and from 1816 to 1825, he continued to practice law in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In 1825, he was hired as editor, first at the New-York Review, then the United States Review and Literary Gazette. After two years of great effort to breathe life into periodicals, he became Assistant Editor of the New-York Evening Post, originally founded by Alexander Hamilton, that was surviving precariously. Within two years, he was Editor-in-Chief and part owner. He remained the Editor-in-Chief until 1878. Eventually, the Evening-Post became the foundation of his fortune and the means to exercise political power in the city, state, and nation. An early supporter of organized labor, he became known as a defender of religious minorities and immigrants, and an outspoken critic of slavery. Ironically, the boy who first tasted fame for his poetic assault against Thomas Jefferson and his party became one of it’s key supporters in the Northeast of that self-same party. Bryant's views, always progressive though not populist, led him to join the Free Soilers, which became the core of the new Republican Party in 1856. By 1860, he was one of the noted Eastern supporters of Abraham Lincoln, whom he introduced at Cooper Union. (Lincoln’s speech there pushed him to the nomination, and then the presidency.) In his last decade, Bryant shifted from writing his own poetry to a blank verse translation of Homer's ‘Iliad’ and ‘The Odyssey’ from 1871 to 1874. He is also remembered as one of the principal authorities on homeopathy and as a hymnist for the Unitarian Church — both legacies of his father's enormous influence on him. William Cullen Bryant died on June 12th, 1878 of complications from an accidental fall. He is buried at Roslyn Cemetery in Roslyn, Long Island, New York.

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    Release dateJan 13, 2015
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      The Poetry of William Cullen Bryant - Volume 2 - The Later Poems - William Cullen Bryant

      The Poetry of William Cullen Bryant

      Volume 2 – The Later Poems

      On January 11, 1821, he married Frances Fairchild.  With an invitation to address the Harvard University Phi Beta Kappa Society he wrote The Ages, a panorama in verse of the history of civilization, culminating in the establishment of the United States. That poem led a collection, entitled Poems, which he arranged to publish on the same trip to Cambridge.

      His career as a poet was thus launched. Even so, it was not until 1832, when an expanded Poems was published in the U.S. and, with the assistance of Washington Irving, in Britain, that he won recognition as America's leading poet.

      However writing poetry wasn’t paid well enough to sustain his family and from 1816 to 1825, he continued to practice law in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

      In 1825, he was hired as editor, first at the New-York Review, then the United States Review and Literary Gazette. After two years of great effort to breathe life into periodicals, he became Assistant Editor of the New-York Evening Post, originally founded by Alexander Hamilton, that was surviving precariously. Within two years, he was Editor-in-Chief and part owner. He remained the Editor-in-Chief until 1878.

      Eventually, the Evening-Post became the foundation of his fortune and the means to exercise political power in the city, state, and nation.

      An early supporter of organized labor, he became known as a defender of religious minorities and immigrants, and an outspoken critic of slavery.

      Ironically, the boy who first tasted fame for his poetic assault against Thomas Jefferson and his party became one of it’s key supporters in the Northeast of that self-same party. Bryant's views, always progressive though not populist, led him to join the Free Soilers, which became the core of the new Republican Party in 1856. By 1860, he was one of the noted Eastern supporters of Abraham Lincoln, whom he introduced at Cooper Union. (Lincoln’s speech there pushed him to the nomination, and then the presidency.)

      In his last decade, Bryant shifted from writing his own poetry to a blank verse translation of Homer's ‘Iliad’ and ‘The Odyssey’ from 1871 to 1874. He is also remembered as one of the principal authorities on homeopathy and as a hymnist for the Unitarian Church — both legacies of his father's enormous influence on him.

      William Cullen Bryant died on June 12th, 1878 of complications from an accidental fall. He is buried at Roslyn Cemetery in Roslyn, Long Island, New York.

      Index Of Cntents

      To the Apennines

      Earth

      The Knight's Epitaph

      The Hunter of the Prairies

      Seventy-Six

      The Living Lost

      Catterskill Falls

      The Strange Lady

      Life

      Earth's Children Cleave to Earth

      The Hunter's Vision

      The Green Mountain Boys

      A Presentiment

      The Child's Funeral

      The Battlefield

      The Future Life

      The Death of Schiller

      The Fountain

      The Winds

      The Old Man's Counsel

      Lines in Memory of William Leggett

      An Evening Revery

      The Painted Cup°

      A Dream

      The Antiquity of Freedom

      The Maiden's Sorrow

      The Return of Youth

      A Hymn of the Sea

      Noon (From an unfinished Poem)

      The Crowded Street

      The White-footed Deer

      The Waning Moon

      The Stream of Life

      TO THE APENNINES

      Your peaks are beautiful, ye Apennines!

      In the soft light of these serenest skies;

      From the broad highland region, black with pines,

      Fair as the hills of Paradise they rise,

      Bathed in the tint Peruvian slaves behold

      In rosy flushes on the virgin gold.

      There, rooted to the aërial shelves that wear

      The glory of a brighter world, might spring

      Sweet flowers of heaven to scent the unbreathed air,

      And heaven's fleet messengers might rest the wing,

      To view the fair earth in its summer sleep,

      Silent, and cradled by the glimmering deep.

      Below you lie men's sepulchres, the old

      Etrurian tombs, the graves of yesterday;

      The herd's white bones lie mixed with human mould

      Yet up the radiant steeps that I survey

      Death never climbed, nor life's soft breath, with pain,

      Was yielded to the elements again.

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