"Thanatopsis" is a renowned poem written by William Cullen Bryant, an American poet and editor of the 19th century.

2008 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Proclaimed by James Fenimore Cooper to be "the author of America," William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) was one of nineteenth-century America's foremost poets and public intellectuals.

Here is the first major-figure anthology of American poetry of the colonial and early national periods, an indispensable volume for both students and scholars of American literature and civilization.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

With Notes and Biographies Augustus White Long. MIDDLE PERIOD I Bryant , Emerson , Longfellow , Whittier , Poe , Holmes , and Lowell WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT 1794-1878 his work as THE life of Bryant falls into two rather distinct parts a ...

Leslie Pockell. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT (1794–1878) William Cullen Bryant was a child prodigy who wrote the momentous poem below while still in his teens. The title is an invented Greek word meaning “Viewing Death,” and it is almost ...