William Cullen Bryant letter to Elizabeth Oakes Smith addition (ViU-2022-0070)

Containers:

Folder 1

Creator:

Stuart Bennett Rare Books and Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878

Extent:

0.04 Cubic Feet One folder (Barrett boxes vault)

Scope and content:

This collection contains a letter from William Cullen Bryant, American poet, journalist, and longtime editor of the New York Evening Post, to Elizabeth Oakes Smith, poet and essayist. In 1872 Bryant made a speech in New York on May 22 at the dedication of John Quincey Adams Ward's statue of Shakespeare on the Mall in Central Park. Here, a week after the speech, Bryant acknowledges Mrs. Oakes Smith's praise: "I completed it in the hope that it might not altogether displease such judges as yourself, and having succeeded in that, my ambition is fully gratified."

Language:

English

Acquisition information:

This collection was purchased from Stuart Bennett for the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia Library on 2 May 2022.

Biographical / historical:

William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 – June 12, 1878) was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post. Born in Massachusetts, he started his career as a lawyer but showed an interest in poetry early in his life. He soon relocated to New York and took up work as an editor at various newspapers. He became one of the most significant poets in early literary America and has been grouped among the fireside poets for his accessible, popular poetry.

Subjects:

Poets

Names:

Stuart Bennett Rare Books
Stuart Bennett Rare Books
Smith, Elizabeth Oakes Prince, 1806-1893
Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878
Smith, Elizabeth Oakes Prince, 1806-1893

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