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... brought about this synthetic poem should be considered . Upon certain of these events , present knowledge is incomplete ; but the broad outline is reasonably clear . At the age of twenty - one and at the time when Bryant was completing ...
... brought about this synthetic poem should be considered . Upon certain of these events , present knowledge is incomplete ; but the broad outline is reasonably clear . At the age of twenty - one and at the time when Bryant was completing ...
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... brought before him . In his best works he became the seeker after truth , the reconciler of contradictions , the entertainer of doubts and ambiguities . To a lesser extent , perhaps , than in his poems on Nature or death , his poems of ...
... brought before him . In his best works he became the seeker after truth , the reconciler of contradictions , the entertainer of doubts and ambiguities . To a lesser extent , perhaps , than in his poems on Nature or death , his poems of ...
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... brought New England to the brink of secession in the Hartford Convention of 1814 and the subsequent relaxation of the Federalists in the " Era of Good Feeling . " They are less useful , however , as profiles of the poet's thought . Even ...
... brought New England to the brink of secession in the Hartford Convention of 1814 and the subsequent relaxation of the Federalists in the " Era of Good Feeling . " They are less useful , however , as profiles of the poet's thought . Even ...
Contents
Chronology | 13 |
The Poems of Nature | 39 |
The Poem of Death | 65 |
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