LEADER 04975oam 22006134a 450 001 9910367645903321 005 20251108110034.0 010 $a0-8232-8727-0 010 $a0-585-24757-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823287277 035 $a(CKB)111004368657354 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000191576 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12024061 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000191576 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10184721 035 $a(PQKB)11270159 035 $a(DE-B1597)555070 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823287277 035 $a(OCoLC)1130248719 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5990006 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5990006 035 $a(OCoLC)1138573405 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse82374 035 $a(ODN)ODN0012519204 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004368657354 100 $a19850401d1981 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Letters of William Cullen Bryant$eVolume III, 1849?1857 /$fedited by William Cullen Bryant II and Thomas G. Voss$hVol. III$i1849-1857$i1849-1857$hVol. III 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLaVergne $cFordham University Press$d2019 210 1$aNew York :$cFordham University Press$d1981. 210 4$dİ1981. 215 $a1 online resource (564 p.) $c9 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$a0-8232-0993-8 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tKey to Manuscript Sources Often Cited in Footnotes --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tBryant Chronology 1849-1857 --$tBryant's Correspondents 1849-1857 --$tXIV. Cuba, Scotland, and Europe under the Bayonet 1849 --$tXV. Retrospections and Projections 1850-1852 --$tXVI. Voyage to the East 1852-1853 --$tXVII. Tumults of the Noisy World 1853-1857 --$tXVIII. A Sea Change and Spain 1857 --$tAbbreviations and Short Titles --$tIndex of Recipients. Volume III --$tIndex 330 $aDuring the years covered in this volume, Bryant traveled more often and widely than at any comparable period during his life. The visits to Great Britain and Europe, a tour of the Near East and the Holy Land, and excursions in Cuba, Spain, and North Africa, as well as two trips to Illinois, he described in frequent letters to the Evening Post. Reprinted widely, and later published in two volumes, these met much critical acclaim, one notice praising the "quiet charm of these letters, written mostly from out-of-the-way places, giving charming pictures of nature and people, with the most delicate choice of words, and yet in the perfect simplicity of the true epistolary style."His absence during nearly one-fifth of this nine-year period reflected the growing prosperity of Bryant's newspaper, and his confidence in his editorial partner John Bigelow and correspondents such as William S. Thayer, as well as in the financial acumen of his business partner Isaac Henderson. These were crucial years in domestic politics, however, and Bryant's guidance of Evening Post policies was evident in editorials treating major issues such as the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Law, the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, the rise of the Republican Party, and the Dred Scott Decision, as well as in his correspondence with such statesmen as Salmon P. Chase, Hamilton Fish, William L. Marcy, Edwin D. Morgan, and Charles Sumner. His travel letters and journalistic writings reflected as well his acute interest in a Europe in turmoil. In France and Germany he saw the struggles between revolution and repression; in Spain he talked with journalists, parliamentary leaders, and the future president of the first Spanish republic; in New York he greeted Louis Kossuth and Giuseppe Garibaldi.Bryant's close association with the arts continued. He sat for portraits to a dozen painters, among them Henry P. Gray, Daniel Huntington, Asher Durand, Charles L. Elliott, and Samuel Laurence. The landscapists continued to be inspired by his poetic themes. Sculptor Horatio Greenough asked of Bryant a critical reading of his pioneering essays on functionalism. His old friend, the tragedian Edwin Forrest, sought his mediation in what would become the most sensational divorce case of the century, with Bryant and his family as witnesses. His long advocacy of a great central park in New York was consummated by the legislature. And in 1852, his eulogy on the life of James Fenimore Cooper became the first of several such orations which would establish him as the memorialist of his literary contemporaries in New York. 606 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General$2bisacsh 608 $aBrieven (vorm) 615 7$aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General. 676 $a811/.3 686 $aBIO000000$aLIT014000$2bisacsh 700 $aBryant$b William Cullen$f1794-1878. 701 $aBryant$b William Cullen$f1908-1999.$01022091 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910367645903321 996 $aThe Letters of William Cullen Bryant$92619419 997 $aUNINA