The book William Cullen Bryant was written by author Bradley, William Aspenwall, 1878-1939 Here you can read free online of William Cullen Bryant book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is William Cullen Bryant a good or bad book?
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These prairies, of a soft, fertile garden soil, and a smooth, undulating surface, on which you may put a horse to full speed, covered with high, thinly growing grass, full of weeds and gaudy flowers, and destitute of bushes or trees, perpetually brought to my mind the idea of their having been once cultivated. They looked to me like the fields of a race which had passed away, whose enclosures and habitations had decayed, but on whose vast and rich plains, smoothed and levelled by tillage, the f...orest had not yet encroached." This fancy we find -worked out in The Prairies, a poem written amid the scenes which it describes and full of vivid and impressive pictures of those " Unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful, For which the speech of England has no name — The Prairies." Bryant's imagination busied itself with the prehis- toric races of men that had lived and hunted on these vast plains, and that now sleep beneath the soil and in " the mighty mounds That overlook the rivers." The subject was a happy one in its appeal to Bryant's inspiration on its most serious side, and the poem is one of the best in the vein of lofty moralizing on the changing forms of life against a background of nature in itself solemn and majestic, and suggestive X.] AT HOME AND ABEOAD (1833-1844) 141 of an eternity of time through, which these changes are slowly wrought.
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