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The Complete Stories of William Cullen Bryant
The Complete Stories of William Cullen Bryant Author:William Cullen Bryant William Cullen Bryant wrote short stories? Indeed he did, and this volume collects and evaluates them for the first time. — During the seven years before the 1832 British publication of Poems firmly established his reputation as a poet in the U.S., Bryan became a key figure in New York City's circle of fiction writers. His tales compare favorably... more » with those of his contemporary Washington Irving, and his varied experiments in a new genre anticipate future developments by half a century and more.
Gado?s previous book presented Bryant as a major exponent of American literary nationalism and the prime antecedent of Whitman and Frost; here, he retrieves a body of short fiction from the fringe of oblivion and both shines a light on the neglected decade preceding Poe and Hawthorne and examines Bryant?s tales as part of that history.
"Frank Gado?s first-rate selection of William Cullen Bryant?s poetry and prose and his persuasive essays on Bryant?s contribution to American prosody and culture restore [him] to his rightful place in American literary history as the philosophical poet too long overlooked. An essential volume."
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