BIB_ID
286196
Accession number
MA 34.2
Creator
Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867.
Display Date
ca. 1825.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 23.9 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of seven items relating to William Cullen Bryant (MA 34.1-7). Items in the collection are described in individual catalog records.
Provenance
Collection bound together for the New-York Co-Operative Society; purchased from the New-York Co-Operative Society by Pierpont Morgan in November 1908.
Summary
Review of Bryant's poetry, mentioning "The Death of the Flowers" as a "beautiful example of his style." Noting that Bryant is "by common consent" placed at the head of American poets, that his "language [is] exquisitely alive with the beauties and harmonies of nature," and that Bryant is about 35 years of age.
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