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From: American Eras
Date: 19970101
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American Poetry

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Bryant. In 1818 the young lawer William Cullen Bryant published a review of Solyman Brown ’ s verse Essay on American Poetry in the North American Review. Not particularly interested in or impressed by Brown ’ s poetry, Bryant instead used tye opportunity to make his own pronouncement on the state of poerty in the American republic. Bryant criticized American poets for too closely imitating older English poets, especially Alexander Pope and John Dryden, and suggested that such imitation had left early American poetry artificial, empty, and cold, ...

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