WilliamCullenBryant(1794---1878)ThanatopsisToaWaterfowlWilliamCullenBryant(1794-1878)WilliamCullenBryant'sestateinNYWilliamCullenBryant'.1)BorninCummington,Massachusetts2)EducatedatWilliamsCollege,,Plainfield,,)Asthedrivingforceofthisliberalandliteratepaper,hewasstronglyanti-slavery;)In1860,)Inhislateryears,BryantfocusedontranslatingandanalyzingAncientGreekandLatinworks,:,writtenbyWilliamCullenBryantattheageof17,("death")andthesuffix-opsis(literally,"sight");ithasoftenbeentranslatedas"MeditationuponDeath."'sagewhenfirstpublishedin1890bytheNorthAmericanReview,RichardHenryDana,thenassociateeditorattheReview,initiallydoubteditsauthenticity,sayingtoanothereditor,"Noone,onthissideoftheAtlantic,iscapableofwritingsuchverses."Althoughthebulkofthepoemwaswrittenatage16,"graveyardpoets"(,"ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyard"andRobertBlair,"TheGrave")andWilliamWordsworth',thereareparallelstoWordsworth’sLucyPoems,especially"ASlumberDidMySpiritSeal":
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