Roget's Int'l Thesaurus Fowler's King's English The King James
Bible Brewer's Phrase & Fable Frazer's Golden Bough Shelf of
Fiction Colonial and Revolutionary Literature; Early National
Literature, Part I Bryant and the Minor Poets > Bryants
Independence as a Poet The Unity of his Life and Work INDEX OF
ALL CHAPTERS The Cambridge History of English and American
Literature in 18 Volumes VOLUME XV. Colonial and Revolutionary
Literature; Early National Literature, Part I. Bryant and the
Minor Poets § 2. Bryants Independence as a Poet. Bryants public
career as poet fulfilled the psalmists three-score years and
ten, if we date from an anti-Jefferson satire in juvenile
heroics (1808). It began with the year of Scotts it was barely
completed with Sigurd the Volsung of William Morris; it included
the lives of Byron and Shelley and most that was best in those
of Tennyson, Arnold, Browning. It began the year following Joel
Barlows American epic and the publication of by the Hartford
Wits. Longfellow and Whittier were i