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William Cullen Bryant was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New-York Evening Post. Born in Massachusetts, he started his career as a lawyer but showed an interest in poetry early in his life.
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culture · American writer & journalist (1794–1878) · poet · journalist · translator · writer · lawyer · politician · also William Cullen Bryant, W. C. Bryant, Bryant
Born 3 November 1794 · Died 12 June 1878 · Q454840
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A statue of William Cullen Bryant by sculptor Herbert Adams was one of the statues of "Eminent Americans" that surrounded The Palace of Fine Arts at the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, Californi
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The reservoir was demolished and replaced by the main building of the New York Public Library
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In recognition of Bryant, Reservoir Square, at the intersection of 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue, was renamed Bryant Park
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Died 1878-06-12.
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Of complications from an accidental fall suffered after participating in a Central Park ceremony to honor Italian patriot Giuseppe Mazzini
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Bought the farmhouse in Cummington, where he grew up and summered annually until his death
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Was one of the prime Eastern exponents of Abraham Lincoln, and Bryant introduced Lincoln at Cooper Union prior to his Cooper Union speech, which was considered influential in lifting Lincoln to the nomination and then
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Bryant took on John Bigelow as a partner and co-owner, after Bigelow was able to borrow money from Charles O'Conor to buy his share
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Bryant bought a house in Roslyn Harbor on Long Island
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Show a variety of strategies, making him the most inventive of practitioners of the genre during this early stage of its evolution
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Bryant relocated to New York City, where he became an editor of two major newspapers
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Was as editor of the New-York Review, which merged with the United States Review and Literary Gazette the following year, in 1826
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Still striving to build a legal career, Bryant married Frances Fairchild
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His father took some pages of verse from his son's desk, and at the invitation of Willard Phillips, an editor of the North American Review who had previously been tutored in the classics by Bryant, submitted them along w
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Bryant was admitted to the bar and began practicing law in nearby Plainfield, walking the seven miles from Cummington every day
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Reflected Bryant's Federalist political views
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Born 1794-11-03.
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