William Cullen Bryant lived a long and active life. As a journalist
he campaigned vigorously for free speech, free trade, the rights
of workman, and the abolition of slavery. (Encarta Online) He
was a radical spokesman for the common people, the laborers
and mechanics in the city and the small farmers in the country.
As a poet he is an important presence in American literary
history as his works mark the birth of American poetry.
Bryant was a poet and editor, a defender of personal freedom, a
fighter against corruption, a supporter of art, music, and
literature. Almost every tribute made to him- in the pulpit and in
the press- recognized that he was a man of character. The poet
Edmund Clarence Stedman summed up this feeling of the
country toward Bryant two days after his death: "He grew to be
not only a citizen, journalist, thinker, poet, but the beautiful,
serene, majestic ideal of a good and venerable man." www.TheTownofNorthHempstead.info
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