Portraits and biographical sketches of twenty American authors . s hisjourneyman time, and in it he acquired facility, readiness,and that familiarity with the practical side of a literary lifewhich stands one in good stead when he is relieved of thenecessity of the drudgery of woik and is enabled to econ-omize his resources. A collection of his jDoems had been published in 1865 byTicknor & Fields, and when this firm projected EverySaturday the next year, they invited him to take chargeof it. This necessitated a change of residence, and he hassince resided in Boston. He continued to edit the pa
Portraits and biographical sketches of twenty American authors . s hisjourneyman time, and in it he acquired facility, readiness,and that familiarity with the practical side of a literary lifewhich stands one in good stead when he is relieved of thenecessity of the drudgery of woik and is enabled to econ-omize his resources. A collection of his jDoems had been published in 1865 byTicknor & Fields, and when this firm projected EverySaturday the next year, they invited him to take chargeof it. This necessitated a change of residence, and he hassince resided in Boston. He continued to edit the paper aslong as it lasted, and after an interval of half a dozen yearssucceeded Mr. Howells as editor of The Atlantic Mo7ithly. His writings are contained in a series of eight of these, From Ponkapog to Pesth, consists of souve-nirs of travel ; but his more mature poetry gives evenstronger evidence of the influence ui)on him of foreign artand travel. His editorial life has permitted him to reservehis power for the perfected forms of literary ^^TfUlu^iy GclC€Aiy(2byaAU=r^ WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. It is a little significant that Bryants first published poem,The Embargo, 1809, should have been in effect a politicalpamplilet. The union of politics and poetry was in the man,and that it should have api^eared in literature may readilybe exi)lained by the fact that the writer was only thirteenyears old at the time, having been born at Cunmiington,iVIassacluisetts, November 3, 1794. The two strands weretwisted into the cord of his destiny, but though Bryants pa-triotism flamed forth more than once in his verse, notablyin Our Countrys Call, he never after his first trial madehis poetry a mere vehicle for political doctrines. Bryants father was a cultivated country doctor, wholooked carefully after his sons reading and sent him to be-gin a college education at Williams. He spent a little lessthan a year at college, but his fathers limited income for-bade further collegiate
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