WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Roslyn Edition WITH CHRONOLOGIES OF BRYANT'S LIFE AND POEMS AND A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HIS WRITINGS BY HENRY C. STURGES AND A MEMOIR OF HIS LIFE BY RICHARD HENRY STODDARD ILLUSTRATED INTER FOLIA NEW YORK AND LONDON D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1929 COPYRIGHT, 1854, 1871, BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. COPYRIGHT, 1878, 1903, BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY. Printed in the United States of America PUBLISHERS' NOTE. THIS edition of Bryant's poetical writings comprises all the verse that had been collected by the poet before his death, and all that has since been collected by his literary executor. It is the only edition in one volume that does this; the most complete one-volume edition heretofore having been the one called the Household Edition. The present edition, to which the name of Roslyn has been given, contains more than fifty poems that have not heretofore been collected, except in the two-volume quarto edition that was prepared by Mr. Parke Godwin soon after the poet's death. A further distinction that belongs to the Roslyn Edition lies in the Chronologies of Bryant's Life and Poems, and the Bibliography of his Poetical and Prose Writings, which have been compiled by Mr. Henry C. Sturges. The material embraces, as the reader will observe, about one hundred pages. It is the result of several years of careful research by Mr. Sturges, and will be found an interesting and important contribution to the value of the edition. NEW YORK. |