William C. Bryant; A Biogr. Sketch, with Selections from His Poems and Other Writings - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880. Excerpt: ... But if, around my place of sleep, The friends I love should come to weep, They might not haste to go. Soft airs, and song, and light, and bloom Should keep them lingering by my tomb. These to their softened hearts should bear The thought of what has been, And speak of one who cannot share The gladness of the scene; Whose part, in all the pomp that fills The circuit of the summer hills, Is that his grave is green; And deeply would their hearts rejoice To hear again his living voice. CHAPTER VL 1825-1830: Literary Associates And Society In New York--Magazine Editing--Takes To Journalism. Settles in New York--Edits a Monthly Magazine--His Literary AssociatesDana--The Death of the Flowers--Sedgwick's Home--The Sketch Club--Lectures at the National Academy of Design--Magazine Ventures Unsuccessful--Takes to Journalism--Assistant Editor of Evening Post--His Literary Status Recognized--The Talisman--On Coleman's Death he becomes Editor of the Evening Post--Engages Leggett as Assistant. Bryant, in 1825, removed to New York, which city continued to be his head-quarters for more than half a century. "Here he lived," says General James Grant Wilson, "from earliest youth to venerable age--from thirty-one to eightyfour--in one path of honour and success." He at once entered on his duties as the co-editor of a monthly publication, The New York Review and Athemeum Magazine, his coadjutor being Henry J. Anderson, afterwards professor of mathematics in Columbia College. This opening had been got for him by Sedgwick, with the aid of Verplanck, and in the new literary enterprise the editors were well supported by the literary contributions of Willis, Dana, Bancroft, and Halleck. The very first number contained several notable poems, such as the well-known "Marco Bozzaris" o...