Poems of William Cullen Bryant

Beschreibung

Biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole. 12mo. Beige cloth spine with gilt lettering and elaborate gilt floral pattern and pale green decorated cloth. li, 384pp. All edges gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece + engraved title page. Very good. Faint binding edgewear, else tight and internally near fine. Handsome copy of this broad selection of the poet's best work -- with choice autograph addition: Tipped to front flyleaf is a near fine 2 3/4" X 1 3/4" slip boldly inscribed and signed by the poet in black ink: "I am, Sir, / respectfully yours / W.C. Bryant / Esq." Bryant (1794-1878), "The Father of American Poetry," was a mainstay of the 19th century literary scene, a popular and influential liberal journalist and long-time editor of the "New York Evening Post," but is best remembered as a prolific poet whose best-known piece, "Thanatopsis," was written as a teenager.

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Bibliografische Details

Titel

Poems of William Cullen Bryant

Verlag

Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, New York

Erscheinungsjahr

1893

Einband

Hardcover

Signiert

Signatur des Verfassers

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