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At his death in 1878 William Cullen Bryant had been, for fifty-one years, the chief editor and a principal owner of the New York __Evening Post__. The paper had been started in 1801 by lawyer William Coleman in association with the Federalist political Alexander Hamilton. In 1826, Coleman hired Bryant as a reporter. Although Coleman may have engaged his services because of his growing distinction as a poet, Bryant was also by then an experienced writer of prose, having published more than fifty critical and familiar essays. He had been both editor of and most frequent writer for the monthly __New York Review__ and the __United State Review__, and was known widely for his lectures on poetry before the New York Athenaeum. By the time he assumed the direction of the __Evening Post__ after Coleman's death in 1829 he had proved himself, in three annual volumes of the holiday gift book __The Talisman__, to be proficient in a wit and irony soon reflected in his editorials. Bryant brought the conservative journal to the support of the Democratic Party of President Andrew Jackson, and held it thereafter to liberal principles, advocating free trade, free labor, and Free Soil. Except for the
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- Author
- William Cullen Bryant
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780823296231
- Category
- nonfiction