William Cullen Bryant

William Cullen Bryant生平简介 作品、He born into a doctor's family in Massachusetts.He started to write poems when he was 14.

William Cullen Bryant

• Life
  • He born into a doctor's family in Massachusetts.He started to write poems when he was 14.
  • He was influenced by Graveyard School in England and wrote the remarkable poem“Thanatopsis”《死亡随想录》 at the age ofseventeen.
  • In 1860, Lincon's famous Cooper Union speech（库柏学院演说），which greatly increased his chances for the presidential nomination, Bryant presided at the meeting and introduced the Illinois politician who was then little known to the New York public.
  • He supported such causes as free speech,freetrade and the abolition of slavery.
  • His best works are his lyric poems about nature and so his style is quite similar to that of Wordsworth.
• Achievement
  • 1.One of American's earliest naturalist poets.
  • 2.Called“the American Wordsworth"
  • 3.The Fireside Poet
  • 4.the first American lyric poet
  • 5.the most popular poet in America of the first half of the 19th century.
  • 6.the first American to gain the stature of a major poet.
  • 7.Definer of the character and tone of American poetry-looking to nature and American landscape for evidence of the divine.
• Occupation
  • romantic poet, lyric poet, journalist and editor.
• Writing Style
  • conventional
  • lyric poems is quite similar to William Wordsworth.
• Works
  • 1.Thanatopsis 《死亡随想录》1821
  • 2.To a waterfowl《致水鸟》1821
  • 3.He translates the lliad《伊利亚特》and theOdyssey《奥德赛》into English blank verse.
  • 4.The yellow violet 《黄色堇香花》1814
  • 5.The Fountain《泉》1842
  • 6.The White-Footed Deer《白蹄鹿》1844
  • 7.A Forest Hymn《深林赋》1860
  • 8.The Flood of Years《似水年华》1878
• To a Waterfowl
  • Publish Year:1818
  • Genre:lyric
  • Point of view:the first, second person
  • Metrical form:rhymed quatrains

William Cullen Bryant

• Life
  • He born into a doctor's family in Massachusetts.He started to write poems when he was 14.
  • He was influenced by Graveyard School in England and wrote the remarkable poem“Thanatopsis”《死亡随想录》 at the age ofseventeen.
  • In 1860, Lincon's famous Cooper Union speech（库柏学院演说），which greatly increased his chances for the presidential nomination, Bryant presided at the meeting and introduced the Illinois politician who was then little known to the New York public.
  • He supported such causes as free speech,freetrade and the abolition of slavery.
  • His best works are his lyric poems about nature and so his style is quite similar to that of Wordsworth.
• Achievement
  • 1.One of American's earliest naturalist poets.
  • 2.Called“the American Wordsworth"
  • 3.The Fireside Poet
  • 4.the first American lyric poet
  • 5.the most popular poet in America of the first half of the 19th century.
  • 6.the first American to gain the stature of a major poet.
  • 7.Definer of the character and tone of American poetry-looking to nature and American landscape for evidence of the divine.
• Occupation
  • romantic poet, lyric poet, journalist and editor.
• Writing Style
  • conventional
  • lyric poems is quite similar to William Wordsworth.
• Works
  • 1.Thanatopsis 《死亡随想录》1821
  • 2.To a waterfowl《致水鸟》1821
  • 3.He translates the lliad《伊利亚特》and theOdyssey《奥德赛》into English blank verse.
  • 4.The yellow violet 《黄色堇香花》1814
  • 5.The Fountain《泉》1842
  • 6.The White-Footed Deer《白蹄鹿》1844
  • 7.A Forest Hymn《深林赋》1860
  • 8.The Flood of Years《似水年华》1878
• To a Waterfowl
  • Publish Year:1818
  • Genre:lyric
  • Point of view:the first, second person
  • Metrical form:rhymed quatrains