. The progress of the Empire State a work devoted to the historical, financial, industrial, and literary development of New York. ew York letters. Certainly he was far the great-est of the early period. He was, indubitably, the first greatAmerican poet. Great he was from the beginning of hiscareer. Thanatopsis, written when he was seventeen, isas noble, as finished, structurally and spiritually, as anythinghe published during his long life. But Bryant was not only a poet. He was a journalist aswell, and perhaps to a greater—certainly to a more admitted—extent than any American editor who has s
. The progress of the Empire State a work devoted to the historical, financial, industrial, and literary development of New York. ew York letters. Certainly he was far the great-est of the early period. He was, indubitably, the first greatAmerican poet. Great he was from the beginning of hiscareer. Thanatopsis, written when he was seventeen, isas noble, as finished, structurally and spiritually, as anythinghe published during his long life. But Bryant was not only a poet. He was a journalist aswell, and perhaps to a greater—certainly to a more admitted—extent than any American editor who has succeeded him,he dignified his calling. He edited the Evening Post forhalf a century, and in all his editorship there was nothing ofwhich the high, luminous poet in him could have beenashamed; and, more remarkable still, nothing which neededthe leniency of the counting-house department of manage-ment. His was, in every sense, a great and vigorous per-sonality. That he should have died in 1878, at the age ofeighty-six, from a sunstroke received while he was deliv-ering a speech at the unveiling of a Central Park monument,.
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