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2008 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleProclaimed by James Fenimore Cooper to be'the author of America,'William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) was one of nineteenth-century America's foremost poets and public intellectuals. In this, the first major biography of Bryant in almost forty years, Gilbert H. Muller reintroduces a quintessential New Yorker who commanded the nation's literary, cultural, urban, and political life for more than half a century.A transplanted Yankee, Bryant arrived on the unpaved streets of Manhattan in the early 1820s and he would soon find himself at the locus of the many political and cultural transformations sweeping Manhattan and the nation. The bedrock of Bryant's cultural authority was his reputation as'America's first poet,'and he enthralled a nation and his peers—including Whitman, Poe, Longfellow, and Emerson—who praised the excellence of his verse. A literary celebrity for almost seventy years, Bryant served as the editor of the New-York Evening Post for five decades, and was a major force behind the establishment of Central Park, the National Academy of Design, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others. Drawing on previously unavailable letters and

Author

Gilbert H. Muller

Publisher

State University of New York Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780791478288

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Fiction, Biography

Rating

3.65 / 5 (16 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14