Bryant, William Cullen, American poet; his poems were popular in America, the chief, “The Age,” published in 1821; was 50 years editor of the New York Evening Post; wrote short poems all through his life, some of the later his best (1794‒1878).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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