William Cullen Bryant

William Cullen Bryant was a 19th-century American Romantic poet and journalist. His meditative, nature-inspired poetry, often written in blank verse, deeply influenced American literature. Biographie ↓Plus ↓

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The Death of the Flowers

The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread; The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day. Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood? Alas! they all are in their graves, the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie, but the cold November rain

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William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) was an American poet and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post. He emerged as a leading voice of early American Romanticism with his contemplative, nature-focused verse. His poetry frequently explores themes of mortality, the sublime in nature, and transcendental ideals, employing a plain yet majestic style. Bryant is best remembered for his early masterpiece 'Thanatopsis,' a meditation on death and nature written when he was a teenager. As editor of the Evening Post for nearly five decades, he helped shape public opinion and supported liberal causes such as abolition and free speech. His blank verse translations of Homer further cemented his literary reputation. Bryant's work marked a shift from European imitations toward a distinctly American poetic identity. He remains a foundational figure in the development of American poetry.

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