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“Strong feeling is always a sure guide. It rarely offends against good taste, because it instinctively chooses the most effectual means of communicating itself to others.”

Trusting sincere emotion to discover its own expressive form · Lecture, On the Nature of Poetry, 1825–26

About William Cullen Bryant

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…

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