William Cullen Bryant

William Cullen Bryant was born in 1794 in Cummington, Massachusetts, the son of a physician who introduced him to poetry and the classics. At thirteen he published a verse satire against Jefferson's policies, was called to the bar in 1815 and practised for about ten years, without enjoying it, in Great Barrington among other places. Settled in New York, he edited a major daily newspaper until his death, fought slavery and supported the nascent Republican Party, then Lincoln. In his seventies, he translated both of Homer's epics into verse. He died in New York in 1878, as a result of a fall.

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