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... poet , he could maintain a cool distance and a relationship entirely devoid of any but the most prosaic of considerations . In 1819 , upon being strenuously pressed by Channing for more material , Bryant replied with a diffidence that ...
... poet , he could maintain a cool distance and a relationship entirely devoid of any but the most prosaic of considerations . In 1819 , upon being strenuously pressed by Channing for more material , Bryant replied with a diffidence that ...
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... poet would , in social intercourse , remain mute behind this gaze , leaving to the sensible man of affairs which ... poet's disturbance , is the other symbol : that of the fowl's ' solitary way " which is also the poet's " long way that ...
... poet would , in social intercourse , remain mute behind this gaze , leaving to the sensible man of affairs which ... poet's disturbance , is the other symbol : that of the fowl's ' solitary way " which is also the poet's " long way that ...
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... poetic form . But for the poet such praise is , at best , a kind of honorable mention . With each successive mastery of a form Bryant reaffirms his technical competence but seldom does the novel device stimulate discoveries of fresh ...
... poetic form . But for the poet such praise is , at best , a kind of honorable mention . With each successive mastery of a form Bryant reaffirms his technical competence but seldom does the novel device stimulate discoveries of fresh ...
Contents
Chronology | 13 |
The Poems of Nature | 39 |
The Poem of Death | 65 |
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Ages Alison American Literature Antiquity of Freedom Apennines appear artist association of ideas beauty Bishop Porteus blank verse Bryant's poetry circle Cole consciousness creative critical death dialogue diction early Earth editor elegy Embargo Emerson emotional eternal experience expression feeling flower Fringed Gentian genius Godwin grave heart Hymn iambic pentameter Ibid imagery images imagination insight intellectual John Lothrop Motley language lines literary lyric McDowell metaphor mind Monument Mountain moral natural objects North American Review Northrup Frye Parke Godwin passage Peter Bryant poems of progress poet poet's poetic political Post Prairies praise problem Prose Writings Putnam's Magazine quatrain reader religious rhetoric rhyme rhythms Romantic scene sense sensibility sentiment sermon social solitude sonnet speaks stanza structure suggestive symbol Thanatopsis thee theme Thomas Cole thou thought tion tone truth vision voice Waterfowl William Cullen Bryant York young