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William Cullen Bryant

 

Bibliography

Early editions of Bryant’s poetry

  • Poems. 182l. Cambridge, Mass.: Hilliard and Metcalf.
  • This edition was reprinted either completely or partially at least 15 times over the course of the nineteenth century:
  • 1832. New York: E. Bliss.
  • 1834. Boston: Russell, Odiorne, and Metcalf.
  • 1836. New York: Harper & Brothers.
  • 1839. New York: Harper & Brothers.
  • 1840. New York: Harper & Brothers.
  • 1847. Philadelphia: Carey and Hart.
  • 1850. Liverpool: John Walker; Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd; Dublin: J. M'Glashan.
  • 1854. Dessau: Katz Brothers.
  • 1855. New York: D. Appleton and Company.
  • 1858. New York: D. Appleton & Co.
  • Among the Trees. 1874. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons; Boston: Lee & Shepard.
  • 1876. New York: Appleton and Company.
  • Poems of Nature. 1893. New York: D. Appleton and Company.
  • Thantopsis and Other Poems. 1884. New York: Clark & Maynard.
  • Thanatopsis and a Forest Hymn. 1895. Philadelphia: Henry Altemus.
  • The Fountain and Other Poems. 1842. New York: Wiley and Putnam.
  • The White-Footed Deer and Other Poems. 1844. New York: I. S. Platt.
  • A Forest Hymn. 1861. New York: W.A. Townsend & Co.
  • The Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant. 1861. London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge.
  • Forest Scenes. 1864. New York: Hurd and Houghton; Cambridge: Riverside Press. (Reprinted in 1885. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin.)
  • Thirty Poems. 1864. New York: D. Appleton.
  • Laurel Leaves. Original Poems, Stories, and Essays. 1876. Boston: William F. Gill and Company.
  • The Flood of Years. 1878. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
  • Bryant's First and Last Poems: I. Thanatopsis, II. The Flood of Years (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1878-79)
  • Parke Godwin (ed.). The Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant. 1878/1903. New York; D. Appleton and Company.

Frontispiece to The Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant (1903)

  • Thanatopsis and Other Poems. 1884. New York: Clarke and Maynard.
  • Sella, Thanatopsis and Other Poems 1892. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. (Reprinted in 1911. New York: The Macmillan Co.)
  • The Early Poems of William Cullen Bryant. 1893. New York: T.Y. Crowell & Co.

 

Prose works

  • William Cullen Bryant(ed.). 1832. Tales of Glauber-Spa. New York: J. & J. Harper.
  • The Skeleton's Cave. 1832. New York: J. & J. Harper.
  • William Cullen Bryant (ed.). 1843 [1840]. Selections from the American Poets. New York: Harper & Brothers.
  • Letters of a Traveler; or, Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America. 1851 [1850]. New York: George P. Putnam.
  • Reminiscences of the Evening Post: Extracted from the Evening Post of November 15, 1851. 1851. New York: Wm. C. Bryant & Co.
  • Memorial of James Fenimore Cooper. 1852. New York: G. P. Putnam.
  • Letters of a Traveller, Second Series. 1859. New York: D. Appleton and Company.
  • A Discourse on the Life and Genius of Washington Irving. 1860. New York: G. P. Putnam.
  • Letters from the East. 1869. New York: G.P. Putnam & Son.
  • William Cullen Bryant (ed.). 1870. Family Library of Poetry and Song. New York: Fords, Howard and Hulbert.
  • A Discourse on the Life, Character and Writings of Gulian Crommelin Verplanck. 1870. New York: Printed for the New-York Historical Society ("delivered before the New-York Historical Society, May 17th, 1870").
  • The Story of the Sower. 1871. New York: D. Appleton and Co.
  • William Cullen Bryant (ed.).  1874 [1871]. A Library of Poetry and Song Being Choice Selections for the Best Poets with an Introduction by William Cullen Bryant. New York: J. B. Ford and Company.
  • William Cullen Bryant (ed.). 1876. A New Library of Poetry and Song. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co.
  • Orations and Addresses. 1873. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.
  • Parke Godwin (ed.). 1889 [1884]. Prose Writings of William Cullen Bryant. New York: D. Appleton and Company.
  • William Cullen Bryant (ed.). 1894. Picturesque America. New York: D. Appleton.

 

Translations

  • The Iliad of Homer translated into English Blank Verse. 1870. Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co.
  • The Odyssey of Homer translated into English Blank Verse (2 vols.). 1871-1872. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co.
  • Ulysses among the Phaeacians from the Translation of Homer's Odyssey. 1889. (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company.

 

Criticism on Bryant: Books

  • Alden, Joseph. Studies in Bryant: A Text-Book. 1879 [1876]. New York: D. Appleton and Company.

 

From Evert A. & George L. Duyckinck. The Cyclopaedia of American Literature(1880)

  • Bigelow, John. American Men of Letters: William Cullen Bryant. 1890. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.
  • Bradley, William Aspenwall. 1905. English Men of Letters: William Cullen Bryant. New York: Macmillan Company.
  • Brodwin, Stanley & Michael D'Innocenzo (eds.). 1983. William Cullen Bryant and His America. New York: AMS Press.
  • Brown, Charles H. 1971. William Cullen Bryant. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
  • Bryant, Harold S. 1972. William Cullen Bryant: His Ancestors and Where They Lived. Middleboro, Massachusetts: Chedwato Service.
  • Cody, Sherwin. 1899. Four American Poets: William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes: a book for young Americans. New York: Werner School Book Company.
  • Curtis, George William. 1879. The Life, Character and Writings of William Cullen Bryant. A commemorative address delivered before the New York historical society, at the academy of music, December 30, 1878. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
  • D'Innocenzo, Michael (ed.). 1983. William Cullen Bryant and His America: Centennial Conference Proceedings, 1878-1978. New York: AMS Press.
  • Gado, Frank. 2006. William Cullen Bryant: An American Voice. White River Junction, VT: Antoca Press.
  • Godwin, Parke (ed.). 1967 [1883]. A Biography of William Cullen Bryant, with Extracts from His Private Correspondence. New York: Russell & Russell.
  • Hornberger, Theodore (ed.). 1950. William Cullen Bryant and Isaac Henderson: New Evidence on a Strange Partnership. Austin: University of Texas Library.
  • Johnson, Curtis S. 1962. Politics and a Belly-full: The Journalistic Career of William Cullen Bryant, Civil War Editor of the New York Evening Post. New York: Vantage Press.
  • Knight, Denise D. (ed.). 2003. Writers of the American Renaissance: An A-to-Z Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood.
  • Krapf, Norbert (ed.). 1986. Under Open Sky: Poets on William Cullen Bryant. New York: Fordham University Press.
  • McDowell, Tremaine. 1935. William Cullen Bryant: Representative Selections, with Introduction, Bibliography, and Notes. New York: American Book Co.
  • McLean, Alfred F. 1989 [1964]. William Cullen Bryant. New York: Twayne.
  • Peckham, Harry Houston. 1950. Gotham Yankee: A Biography of William Cullen Bryant. New York: Vantage Press.
  • Pehrson, Joseph. Thanatopsis. NY: Seesaw Music, 1994 (Musical Score).
  • Phair, Judith Turner. 1975. A Bibliography of William Cullen Bryant and His Critics, 1808-1972. Troy, New York: Whitston Pub. Co.
  • Phelps, William Lyon. 1924. The Poetry of William Cullen Bryant. New York: Macmillan Company.
  • Schmidt, Klaus H., and Fritz Fleischman (eds). 2000. Early America Re-Explored: New Readings in Colonial, Early National, and Antebellum Culture. New York: Peter Lang.
  • Sturges, Henry C. 1968. Chronologies of the Life and Writings of William Cullen Bryant, with a bibliography of his works in prose and verse. New York: B. Franklin.
  • Symington, Andrew James. 1972 [1880]. William Cullen Bryant: A Biographical Sketch: with Selections From His Poems and Other Writings. New York: Harper & Brothers.
  • Waterston, R.C. 1878. Tribute to William Cullen Bryant. Boston: J. Wilson & Son.
  • Wilson, James Grant. 1886. Bryant, and His Friends: Some Reminiscences of the Knickerbocker Writers. New York: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert.

 

Criticism on Bryant: Articles and Essays

  • Babcock, Matthew. 2006. “Bryant's 'The Yellow Violet'” in Explicator 65:1 (Fall): 21-26.
  • Branch, Michael P. 1998. “William Cullen Bryant” in American Transcendental Quarterly 12:3 (September): 179-97.
  • Bray, Paul. 1998. “William Cullen Bryant” in Eric L. Haralson (ed.). Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn.
  • Bryant, William Cullen, II. 1993. “Bryant and Poe: A Reacquaintance” in Studies in the American Renaissance: 147-52.
  • Ferguson, Robert A. 1980. “William Cullen Bryant: The Creative Context of the Poet” in New England Quarterly 53 (4): 431-463.
  • Fynaardt, Keith. 1994. “The Spirit of Place as a Usable Past in William Cullen Bryant’s ‘The Prairies’” in Midamerica: The Yearbook of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature 21: 50-58.
  • Gado, Frank. 2002. “William Cullen Bryant” in, Kent P. Ljungquist (ed.). Antebellum Writers in New York: Second Series. Detroit, MI: Gale: 68-88.
  • Glicksberg, C.I. 1950. “William Cullen Bryant and Nineteeth-Century Science” in New England Quarterly 23 (March): 91-96.
  • Han, John J. 2003. “William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)” in Denise D. Knight (ed.). Writers of the American Renaissance: An A-to-Z Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood: 30-37.
  • Harrington, Joseph. 1996. “Re-Birthing ‘America’: Philip Freneau, William Cullen Bryant and the Invention of Modern Poetics” in A. Robert Lee & W.M. Verhoeven (eds). Making America/Making American Literature. Amsterdam: Rodopi: 249-274.
  • Harrington, Kristine. 1998. “William Cullen Bryant” in Donald Ross & James J. Schramer (eds). American Travel Writers, 1850-1915. Detroit MI: Gale: 49-54.
  • Haselstein, Ulla. 1998. “Seen from a Distance: Moments of Negativity in the American Sublime (Tocqueville, Bryant, Emerson)” in Amerikastudien/American Studies 43:3: 405-21.
  • Herrick, Marvin T. 1935. “Rhetoric and Poetry in Bryant” in American Literature 7 (May): 188-194.
  • Hurley, C. Harold. 2001. “'But Bryant? What of Bryant in Bryan?': The Religious Implications of the Allusion to 'A Forest Hymn' in The Sun Also Rises” in Hemingway Review 20:2 (Spring): 76-89.
  • Jason, Philip K. 1989. “William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)” in Nineteenth Century American Poetry: An Annotated Bibliography. Pasadena, California: Salem Press: 26-34.
  • Link, Eric Carl. 2003. “American Nationalism and the Defense of Poetry” in Southern Quarterly: A Journal of the Arts in the South 41:2 (Winter): 48-59.
  • Meyer, Kinereth. 1993. “Landscape and Counter-Landscape in the Poetry of William Cullen Bryant” in Nineteenth-Century Literature 48 (2):194-211.
  • Morris, Timothy. 1994. “Bryant and the American Poetic Tradition” in American Transcendental Quarterly 8:1 (March): 53-70.
  • Ostrowski, Carl. 1995. “‘I Stand upon Their Ashes in Thy Beam’: The Indian Question and William Cullen Bryant’s Literary Removals” in American Transcendental Quarterly 9:4 (December): 299-312.
  • Petrino, Elizabeth A. 2005. “Late Bloomer: The Gentian as Sign or Symbol in the Work of Dickinson and Her Contemporaries” in Emily Dickinson Journal 14:1: 104-23.
  • Phelps, C. Deirdre. 1994. “The Edition as Art Form: Social and Authorial Readings of William Cullen Bryant’s Poems” in Text: Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship 6: 249-85.
  • Richman, Steven M. 1997. “William Cullen Bryant and the Poetry of Natural Law” in Akron Law Review 30: 661.
  • Ringe, Donald A. 1954. “Kindred Spirits: Bryant and Cole” in American Quarterly 6 (Fall): 233-244.
  • Sanford, Charles L. 1957. “The Concept of the Sublime in the Works of Thomas Cole and William Cullen Bryant” in American Literature 28 (January): 434-44.
  • Sabol, Cathy E. 1995. “The Poet as Planter: William Cullen Bryant, Landscaper and Horticulturist” in Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Annual Proceedings 20: 144-151.
  • Zanger, Jules. 2000. “Poetry and Political Rhetoric: Bryant's 'The Prairies'” in Klaus H. Schmidt (ed.).  Early America Re-Explored: New Readings in Colonial, Early National and Antebellum Culture. New York: Peter Lang: 467-77