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William Cullen Bryant was an American poet and newspaper editor.

He was the son son of a learned and highly respected physician, and as such was exposed to English poetry in his father's vast library. As a boy he became devoted to the New England countryside and was a keen observer of nature. 

Bryant wrote his finest poetry in his youth. His early poems, all written before he was 21,  celebrated the majesty of nature in a style that was influenced by the English romantics but at the same time reflected a personal simplicity and dignity.

Bryant was also trained in law, and admitted to the bar in 1815. In 1925,  he went to New York City. By that time he was already known as a poet and critic. He became associate editor of the New York Evening Post in 1826, and from 1829 to his death he was part owner and editor in chief. He was a defender of human rights and an advocate of free trade, abolition of slavery, and other reforms. He also holds an important place in literature as the earliest American theorist of poetry. Among his other works are translations of the Iliad (1870) and the Odyssey (1871), by Homer, still considered among the best in English verse.

 

The Library of Poetry and Song
By William Cullen Bryant

Power for Sanity : Selected Editorials of William Cullen Bryant, 1829-1861
By William Cullen Bryant

 

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