1794-1806: Birth, Parentage, and Early Days-'The Rivulet,'

14

CHAPTER III.

1806-1811: The Boy Poet and Student Days-'The Embargo,'

CHAPTER IV.

1811-1820: 'Thanatopsis '—Plainfield and Great Barrington

-'Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood'-'Green River'

-'To a Waterfowl'-'Oh Fairest of the Rural Maids,'

CHAPTER V.

1821-1825: Great Barrington-His Marriage-'The Ages'—

Publishes a Volume-Indian Poems-The Yellow Violet'

-'Monument Mountain '—'A Forest Hymn '—'Autumn

Woods'-'June '-Abandons Law,

CHAPTER VI.

1825-1830: Literary Associates and Society in New York-

Magazine Editing-"The Death of the Flowers '-Takes

to Journalism,

...

CHAPTER VII.

1826-1878: His Editorial Career,

CHAPTER VIII.

1827-1832: Literary Work-Poems Published in New York

and London-Volume Favourably Received-'The Poet'

-'A Winter Piece '-'Summer Wind'-'Song'-'The

African Chief '-'The Evening Wind'-Translations,

29

45

66

98

105

132

CHAPTER IX.

Page

1834-1857: Bryant's First Four Visits to the Old World, and

his Travels in America-'The Future Life'-Delivers

Addresses on Cole and Cooper-Cedarmere and his Home-

life,

...

CHAPTER X.

1857-1866: Again Visits Europe-His Baptism at Naples-His

Wife's Illness and Recovery-'The Life that is '—'The

Third of November '-Addresses-Cummington-Seven-

tieth Birth-day Presentation-'The Death of Lincoln'—

Death of his Wife,

...

...

156

170

CHAPTER XI.

1867-1876: Last Visit to Europe-His Homeric Translations,

with Specimens-Speech at Williams College-Mexico-

Orations-Eightieth Birth-day-Vase Presentation—

Bryant's Reply,

...

CHAPTER XII.

-

1876: Library of Poetry and Song-Selection of Poems from

the Illustrated Edition of 1876-'The Antiquity of Free-

dom'-'The Burial of Love'-'The May Sun'—'The

Planting of the Apple Tree '-'The Wind and Stream '-

'Robert of Lincoln'-'The Death of Slavery '—'The

Flood of Years'-Characteristics of Bryant's Poetry-

His Christian Hymns-Exquisite Art-Reputation Safe

-His Reading of Nature,

...

CHAPTER XIII.

1876-1878: Youth in Old Age-Careful Habits-Wide Sym-

pathies-Independent Spirit-The Fine Arts-Letter to

Williams College-Firm Faith-Ode to Washington—

Science and Religion-Edits Shakspere,

CHAPTER XIV.

1878: Speech in Central Park at Inauguration of Mazzini's

Bust-Sad Accident to Bryant-His Illness—Death—

Funeral-Critical Estimates of Bryant,

186

200

228

...

244

SELECTIONS FROM BRYANT'S POEMS.

Those distinguished by an asterisk (*) are quoted in full.

The Embargo, or Sketches of the Times, By a Youth of Thirteen, 33

*Song-Soon as the Glazed and Gleaming Snow,

Oh Fairest of the Rural Maids,

Do.

Specimen of his Translation from Book VIII. of the Iliad,

do. from Book V. of the Odyssey,

188

189

*The Supremacy of Christ-O North, with all thy Vales of Green, 226

Whate'er He bids, Observe and Do,

227

*Ode for Washington's Birth-day, February 22, 1878,