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William Cullen Bryant (Critical Survey of Poetry)

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William Cullen Bryant wrote a substantial body of prose: tales, editorials, reviews, letters, appreciations, sketches or impressions, and critical essays. In 1850, he published Letters of a Traveller: Or, Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America; in 1859, Letters of a Traveller, Second Series; and in 1869, Letters from the East. He reviewed the careers of a number of his contemporaries in such pieces as A Discourse on the Life and Genius of James Fenimore Cooper (1852) and A Discourse on the Life and Genius of Washington...

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