William Cullen Bryant
Subtitle: The Complete Stories
By: Frank Gado
Publisher: Antoca Press; Antoca
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9781611685688
Subjects: American Short stories; American fiction
Description: William Cullen Bryant wrote short stories? Indeed he did, and this volume collects and evaluates them for the first time.0During the seven years before the 1832 British publication of Poems firmly established his reputation as a poet in the U.S., Bryan became a key figure in New York City's circle of fiction writers. His tales compare favorably with those of his contemporary Washington Irving, and his varied experiments in a new genre anticipate future developments by half a century and more.0Gados previous book presented Bryant as a major exponent of American literary nationalism and the prime antecedent of Whitman and Frost; here, he retrieves a body of short fiction from the fringe of oblivion and both shines a light on the neglected decade preceding Poe and Hawthorne and examines Bryants tales as part of that history.0.