- Sep 27
- 1 min
A Poetry Reading in Gerry Park
This past Friday, September 22nd, The Bryant Library hosted an open mic poetry reading in the Gerry Park gazebo. Organized by librarians...
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- Apr 20
- 9 min
Poetic Analysis: Christopher Morley's “Two O' Clock”
“We heard a critic remark that no great sonnets are being written nowadays.” This editorial statement opens Christopher Morley’s “The...
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- Feb 27
- 3 min
Translation as Poetry: Langston Hughs & Gabriela MIstral
As February morphs quickly into March, and Women’s History Month follows in the wake of Black History Month, it seems appropriate to note...
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- Jan 3, 2022
- 7 min
Edgar Allan Poe Reviews the Poetry of William Cullen Bryant
Excerpted from Edgar Allan Poe’s April 1846 lengthy analysis of the publication of The Complete Poetical Works of W. C. Bryant, the...
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- Jan 3, 2022
- 2 min
The Snow Shower: A Poem by William Cullen Bryant
November 3, 2019 marks the 225th birthday of William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), our Library’s namesake. In 1875, Bryant built a “Reading...
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- Jan 3, 2022
- 4 min
The Groves Were God’s First Temples
The Groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them - ere he...
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- Nov 2, 2021
- 2 min
Narrative of a Season: William Cullen Bryant’s “November”
A pillar of American Romanticism, William Cullen Bryant’s greatest muse was the beauty of the natural world. His idyllic verse of...
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- Nov 3, 2020
- 1 min
Happy Birthday Bryant!
Softly breathes the west-wind beside the ruddy forest, Taking leaf by leaf from the branches where he flies. Sweetly streams the...
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- Sep 23, 2020
- 2 min
Gabriela Mistral: The Poet-Diplomat of Chile
One of the most renowned figures in Latin American literature, Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, spent the last four years of her life...
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- Jun 9, 2020
- 1 min
William Cullen Bryant - The Death of Slavery
William Cullen Bryant, our library's founder and namesake, held abolitionist views and was instrumental in securing northern votes for...
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- May 8, 2020
- 1 min
Gems From Bryant
Enjoy this digitized version from the Library of Congress of a 1904 illustrated collection of William Cullen Bryant's poetry. LC Catalog...
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- Nov 12, 2009
- 5 min
William Cullen Bryant: Choosing a Literary Life
A version of the following article by former LHC Archivist Myrna Sloam was originally published in the November/December 2009 Bryant...
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