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- Romanticism: 100 Poems
- Romanticism: 100 Poems
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction
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- Part
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- John Clare (1793–1864; English)
- Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793–1835; English)
- William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878; American)
- John Keats (1795–1821; English)
- Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797–1848; German)
- Alfred de Vigny (1797–1863; French)
- Heinrich Heine (1797–1856; German)
- Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837; Italian)
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- Part
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William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878; American)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2021
- Romanticism: 100 Poems
- Romanticism: 100 Poems
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Part
- John Clare (1793–1864; English)
- Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793–1835; English)
- William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878; American)
- John Keats (1795–1821; English)
- Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797–1848; German)
- Alfred de Vigny (1797–1863; French)
- Heinrich Heine (1797–1856; German)
- Giacomo Leopardi (1798–1837; Italian)
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Part
Summary
One of the most admired American poets of the nineteenth century, and best known for “Thanatopsis,” Bryant struggled out from under his grandfather’s rigid Calvinism and eventually joined the much more liberal Unitarians, some of whom joined the Transcendentalist movement. His discovery of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads in 1810 sent him on his path toward poetry about nature, often in simple diction and blank verse.
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- Romanticism: 100 Poems , pp. 101 - 102Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021