2. outline
•Similarity:
• They belongs to the some period-
Romanticism
• These two belongs to a group-
The Fireside Poet
Differences:
• Life
• Literary Achievement
• Masterpieces
3. Body (differences)
Henry Wadsworth
William Cullen Bryant
Longfellow
Life Life
Literary Achievement Literary Achievement
Masterpieces Masterpieces
The Song of
Thanatopsis To a Waterfowl A Psalm of Life
Hiawatha
5. Life
• Born Nov.3,1794,Cummington, Mass.
• 1817, hisThanatopsis—best poet in America.
• Bryant worked as a lawyer in until 1825.
• Married and moved to New York City and
worked for the New York Review and then
the New York Evening Post in 1826.
• First American writer of verse to win
international acclaim.
• As an associate editor, he became editor in
1892 and remained in that post until his
death.
• Died June 12,1878,New York City.
8. Literary Achievement
• One of American’s earliest naturalist poets
• Called “the American Wordsworth”
• The Fireside Poet
• Major works: Thanatopsis
To a Waterfowl
The Lliad and The Odyssey of Homer
(translated works-- into English
blank)
9. • Influence:
father of nineteenth century American journalism as
well as the father of nineteenth century American
poetry
——Vernon Louis Parrington
Bryant was seeking a uniquely singular American voice
with his writing, which could be set apart from the
culture of the
mother country, England.
10. • The Fireside Poet
The Fireside Poets (also known as the
Schoolroom or Household Poets) were a
group of 19th-century American poets from
New England.
The group is typically thought to comprise
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen
Bryant, who were the first American poets
whose popularity rivaled that of British
poets, both at home and abroad.
11. Thanatopsis
(a view of death)
Thanatos (death) Opsis (seeing). The title
presents the poem as a way of seeing
death.
All of these words are associated with
death and burial. This furthers the idea
of the poem presenting a way of looking
at death.
12. Thanatopsis
(a view of death)
Bryant “develops a view of death which
represents a sharp break from the Puritan
attitude toward man’s final destiny. To the
Puritans, death was seen as a preliminary
to an after line. Bryant, however, treats
death as part of nature, the destiny of us
all, and the great equalizer.
14. To a Waterfowl
• “To a Waterfowl” is written in iambic
trimeter and iambic pentameter,
consisting of eight stanzas of four lines.
• The poem represents early stages of
American Romanticism through
celebration of Nature and God's presence
within Nature
16. Life
• Was born on February 27, 1807
• Was enrolled in a dame school at the age of
three and by age six was enrolled at the
private Portland Academy
• He printed his first poem – a patriotic and
historical four stanza poem called "The Battle
of Lovell's Pond" – in the Portland Gazette on
November 17, 1820.
• He pursued his literary goals by submitting
poetry and prose to various newspapers and
magazines
17. • After graduating in 1825, he was offered a
job as professor of modern languages at his
alma mater
• In May of 1826, Henry set out for Europe
to turn himself into a scholar and a linguist
• At 22, he was launched into his career as a
college professor
• In 1834, he was appointed to a
professorship at Harvard and once more
set out for Europe by way of preparation
18. • Evangeline was published in 1847 and was
widely acclaimed
• He died on March 24, 1882
19. Literary Achievement
• One of the first poets to take the landscape and
stories of North America as his subjects, Longfellow
became immensely popular all over the world
• He was the first American commemorated in the
Poets Corner of Westminster Abbey.
• He was given honorary degrees at the great
universities of Oxford and Cambridge, invited to
Windsor by Queen Victoria, and called by request
upon the Prince of Wales.
• He was also chosen a member of the Russian
Academy of Sciences and of the Spanish Academy
20. • Major works:
The Arrow and the Song
Children
The Song of Hiawatha
Hymn to the Night
A PSALM OF LIFE
The Village Blacksmith
The Day Is Done
21. A Psalm of Life
• TELL me not, in mournful numbers, • Be not like dumb, driven cattle !
• Life is but an empty dream ! — • Be a hero in the strife !
• For the soul is dead that slumbers,
• And things are not what they
seem. • Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant !
• Let the dead Past bury its dead !
• Life is real ! Life is earnest! • Act,— act in the living Present !
• And the grave is not its goal ;
• Dust thou art, to dust returnest, • Heart within, and God o'erhead !
• Was not spoken of the soul.
• Lives of great men all remind us
• Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, • We can make our lives sublime,
• Is our destined end or way ; • And, departing, leave behind us
• But to act, that each to-morrow
• Find us farther than to-day. • Footprints on the sands of time ;
• Art is long, and Time is fleeting, • Footprints, that perhaps another,
• And our hearts, though stout and • Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
brave,
• Still, like muffled drums, are • A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
beating • Seeing, shall take heart again.
• Funeral marches to the grave.
• Let us, then, be up and doing,
• In the world's broad field of battle,
• In the bivouac of Life, • With a heart for any fate ;
• Still achieving, still pursuing,
• Learn to labor and to wait.
22. Conclusion
• According to this presentation, we can learn a
lot, the two poets-- William Cullen Bryant and
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. What we get to
know is their spirits, their ideas at their period,
and then we understand the society
underground at that time by reading their
works.
• They made contributions to the development of
literature and their works benefit us forever.
