Author:William Cullen Bryant

William Cullen Bryant
(1794–1878)

William Cullen Bryant

Works

Individual poems

• "After a Tempest"
• "Castles in the Air" in The Atlantic Monthly, 17 (99) (January, 1866)
• "Consumption"
• "The Arctic Lover"
• "The Death of Lincoln"
• "The Death of Slavery" in The Atlantic Monthly, 18 (105) (July, 1866)
• "The Death of the Flowers"
• "The Embargo"
• "A Forest Hymn"
• "The Gladness of Nature"
  • (As published in Oklahoma Arbor and Bird Day, Friday, March Twelfth, 1909)
• "Hymn of the City"
• "Hymn To Death"

• "An Indian Story"
• "Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood"
• "June"
• "The Living Lost"
• "Love and Folly"
• "Musings"
• "Mutation"
• "November"
• "October"
• "Our Country's Call"
• "The Return of the Birds" in The Atlantic Monthly, 14 (81) (March, 1864)
• "The Rivulet"
• "A Song of Pitcairn's Island"
• "Spring in Town"
• "Summer Wind"
• "Thanatopsis" (1811)
• "To A Cloud"
• "To a Waterfowl"
• "To the Fringed Gentian"
• "The Skies"
• "The Strange Lady"
• "The West Wind"
• "The Wind and Stream" in The Atlantic Monthly, 1 (2) (December, 1857)
• "The Yellow Violet"

Poetry collections

• Poems

  First edition (Cambridge: Hilliard and Metcalf, 1821)

• Thirty Poems (1864) (start transcription)

  "The Planting of the Apple Tree"

  "The Snow Shower"

  "A Rain Dream"

  "Robert of Lincoln"

  "The Twenty-Seventh of March"

  "An Invitation to the Country"

  "Song for New-Year's Eve"

  "The Wind and Stream"

  "The Lost Bird"

  "The Night Journey of a River"

  "The Life that Is"

  "Song: 'These Prairies Glow with Flowers'"

  "A Sick-Bed"

  "The Song of the Sower"

  "The New and the Old"

  "The Cloud on the Way"

  "The Tides"

  "Italy"

  "A Day Dream"

  "The Ruins of Italica"

  "Waiting by the Gate"

  "Not Yet"

  "Our Country's Call"

  "The Constellations"

  "The Third of November, 1861"

  "The Mother's Hymn"

  "Sella"

  "The Fifth Book of Homer's Odyssey, Translated"

  "The Little People of the Snow"

  "The Poet"

• Unpublished Poems by Bryant and Thoreau (1907)

As translator

• The Iliad of Homer, translated into English blank verse (1871) (transcription project)
• "Farewell to my Mother" in The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922), edited by James Weldon Johnson

Works about Bryant

Encyclopedia articles

• "W. C. Bryant" in Littell's Living Age, 1 (1) (1844)
• "Bryant, William Cullen," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1891)
• "Bryant, William Cullen," by Richard Henry Stoddard in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)
• "Bryant, William Cullen," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Bryant, William Cullen," by George Washington Cable in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Poems about Bryant

• A Fable for Critics (1848) by James Russell Lowell
• "On Board the '76" (1864) by James Russell Lowell
• "The Death of Bryant" (1878) by Edmund Clarence Stedman
• "The Centennial of William Cullen Bryant's Birth" (1894) by Julia Ward Howe

On his works

• "Mr. Bryant's 'Thirty Poems' " and "Mr. Bryant's 'Homer' ", by Edmund Clarence Stedman from Genius, and other essays (1911)