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INTRODUCTORY,
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
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CHAPTER II.
1794-1806: Birth, Parentage, and Early Days-'The Rivulet,'
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,
1826-1878: His Editorial Career,
CHAPTER VI.
1825-1830: Literary Associates and Society in New York-
Magazine Editing 'The Death of the Flowers '-Takes
to Journalism,
CHAPTER VII.
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,
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66
98
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CHAPTER IX.
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,
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,
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SELECTIONS FROM BRYANT'S POEMS.
Those distinguished by an asterisk (*) are quoted in full.
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The Embargo, or Sketches of the Times, By a Youth of Thirteen, 33
*The Genius of Columbia,
37
*Stanzas-originally prefixed to Thanatopsis,
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A Lifetime,
Scenery of his Hampshire Home,
*The Rivulet,
Hymn to Death,
Lines from an Early School Exercise,
*Thanatopsis,
*Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood,
Lines on Revisiting the Country,
*Green River,
*To a Waterfowl,
*Song-Soon as the Glazed and Gleaming Snow,
Oh Fairest of the Rural Maids,
The Ages,
*The Yellow Violet,
A Walk at Sunset,
The West Wind,
*The Massacre at Scio,
Song of the Greek Amazon,
Indian Poems,
*Monument Mountain,
After a Tempest,
*A Forest Hymn,
The Old Man's Funeral,
The Murdered Traveller,