“Important, therefore, as may be the office of the imagination in poetry, the great spring of poetry is emotion.”
About William Cullen Bryant
3 November 1794–12 June 1878
William Cullen Bryant was born on 3 November 1794 in the rural hill town of Cummington, Massachusetts, and died in New York City on 12 June 1878. During his unusually long life, he became several things at once: one of the earliest American poets to command serious respect at home and abroad, a formidable editor whose…