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Title: Bryant. Poems from the works of William Cullen Bryant
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 Hedgdon, Josephine E., (from old catalog) comp
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and compnay
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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sketch which will be found with each series may serve as thefoundation for essays on the authors life and works. 9. The illustrations may be employed as subjects for language-lessons, thuscultivating the powers of observation and expressiou. All these methods combined may be made to give pleasure to the pupilsfriends, and make it feasible to entertain them oftener than is now the cus-tom, thus creating an interest in the school and a sympathy with the authorwhose works are the subjects of study. The foregoing is by no means anecessary order, and teachers will vary from it as their own appreciation ofthe intelligence of their pupils and the interest of the exercise shall suggest. The object to be kept in view is, pleasantly to introduce the works of ourbest authors to growing minds, and to develop in them a taste for the best inliterature, that the world of books may become to them an unfailing sourceof inspiration and delight. vi LEAFLETS FROM STANDARD AUTHORS. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.
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^KMcaw CJl^tm^oAiA^ A few years ago there died in New York city a man standing in thefirst rank of literature, who had made his literary reputation before SirWalter Scott began his series of the Waverley novels. He was in his primewhen Dickens and Thackeray first began to write, and in the full exer-cise of his intellectual powers after they had laid aside forever their busy 7 LEAFLETS FROM STANDARD AUTHORS. pens. Closely identified with the national life of his native land, and havinga large share in originating and elevating its literature, and in shaping thecourse of its politics, William Cullen Bryant truly merited the encomium ofbeing accounted the most accomplished, the most distinguished, and themost universally honored, citizen of the United States, and that, too, solelyby his genius, moral rectitude, and force of character. He was my masterin verse, said Longfellow, uten years and more my senior, and throughoutmy whole life I have had the warmest reverential regard for him. Ibryantpoemsfromw00brya

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