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The Life by Parke Godwin must always be the great storehouse of facts for those to whom every item of information about the great poet is gladly received. But Godwin's work is too bulky for ordinary use, and too expensive for the popular purse. The present volume, therefore, having the advantage of following the larger work, together with the inspiration of personal relations of its author with the poet, will surely find a wider circle of readers, and increase the influence of a life noble enough to make it memorable apart from the blossom and fruit of its song. The life of Bryant has a two-fold character. He was a great poet, and has produced some of the finest poems of our literature. But he was a public man as well, no insignificant factor, during his long connection with the New York Evening Post," in moulding public * WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. By John Bigelow. "American Men of Letters" Series. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. opinion and directing the counsels of his country. He possessed rare judgment in practical affairs, no less than rare taste and power in verse. The strength of his individuality was far-reaching, during the fifty years that his striking face and figure were well-known in New York City. In Bryant's case, the direction of Othello, "nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice," is inapplicable, because the first is unnecessary, the last is impossible. Born of Puritan New England parents, he early 'learned to esteem that spotlessness of character which became his own, to imbue his life with that moral beauty so characteristic of his poetry, and to set before himself that standard of virtue which made him revered in public as in private life. Bryant the poet early showed his power. The record of his precocity is as marvellous as that of any other genius. Before he was a year and a half old he knew his letters. At five, he recited with pleasure many of Watts's hymns. When At eight, he wrote verses. scarcely ten, he made a verse paraphrase of the first chapter of Job, and in the same year declaimed a rhymed description of the school he attended,-verses afterwards published in the county paper. At this time he wrote a satire on the "Embargo" of Jefferson, which his father, an ardent Federalist, published in Bos ton. These five hundred lines contained a scathing rebuke to Jefferson, often quoted with great merriment when Bryant afterwards became a Jeffersonian Democrat. The early verse, however, shows little but excessive influence of Pope, both in correctness of measure and in couplet structure. Not till later was the reactionary poetry of Cowper and Wordsworth read with delight, giving the impulse to his later poetic form. One other incident, the story of "Thanatopsis," is known to all: how it was written by the boy of eighteen, and remained six years unheard of; how it was first brought to notice by the father and even ascribed to him, and how its publication in the "North American Review" discovered a new genius in the young barrister of the Berkshire hills. |