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Bryant and the Minor Poets
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Bryant the Citizen
James Kirke Paulding
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The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes
(190721).
VOLUME XV. Colonial and Revolutionary Literature; Early National Literature, Part I.
V.
Bryant and the Minor Poets
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§ 17. Richard Henry Dana the elder.
When Bryant, pioneer and patriarch, was laid away on that bright June afternoon of 1878 in the cemetery at Roslyn, Long Island, his oldest and dearest friend was still alive. Richard Henry Dana (1787-1879), one of the founders of
The North American Review
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and of the serious tradition in our literary criticism, is remembered, if at all, as verse-writer mainly through Bryants praise, as Mason is remembered through Grays. How remote the short jerky stanzas of
The Buccaneer
(1827), an ambitious tale of pirate and spectre, were from the talents and temper of the Bostonian descendant of the Puritan Anne Bradstreet, one may realize who reflects what Coleridge would have done with the spell and the uncanny, and what Byron with the crime and the movementthe two poets whom Dana was obviously emulating. But there are some good lines on the sea in
The Buccaneer,
and Danas lyric,
The Little Beach Bird,
gets a traditional honourable mention in the manuals.
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Note 30
. See Book II, Chap. XX.
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