| Show p I Little Biographies of Big Men j 1 A Sketch of ol tin time B 1103 smith mill Youth of William illium Bryant j A American Poet sj 0 William Cullon Culion Bryant w was born orn In L Western Massachusetts l In the year 1794 His ancestors were among the Plymouth Rook Pilgrims anti and Purl Purl- Ills father Cather tans of or a pronounced type as a plain country doctor octor but hut a man manof of or deep reasoning powers powel's for Cor those tunes a man of or Integrity and worth though thought possessing none nono of those tender tend tend- er or affectionate traits so desirable In Ina Inn a n hus husband and and amid father father- But this was stick Mock of the thit Puritan and anel th time the Inu mans man's nn nature t i i d t to t 1 I i mx V 1 Mi x di 1 I j f I 4 T. T the Iho boys boy's OR severe Ic training to suppress s deep feeling 01 or strong emotions of Or human attachment s molher was x wasn iasa Cullen Bryant most Industrious housewife baring n a lot for anti and rearing seven children cooked d sewed she h r IJ washed and Irom-d Irom Like her husband of lender she she- ho made no demonstrations 1 and emotional affection and the lie BIant Bryant Bryant Bry Bry- ant household was a calm chilly practical Pm place where whore duty rather than love bound tho the members together In Iii Ina Ina a quiet friendly way which one biographer bio blo- lo- lo grapher has called mutual tolora- tolora tion tiomi This same biographer goes on onto onto onto to sty say IL It was a u home of virtue not of emotion It fostered quiet strength und anti self reliance not tender tandem sympathetic sympathetic dependence The Time parents were good friends one doubts whether they thoy could ever have been heen passionate JOt lov JO t ers Cs 18 When hen William un was but ut a year and anda a half halt old ho lie knew his letters When herm four he was sent to tho the district school and before the shortest term was over he was a n good reader and amid speller roller From Irom nil all we can learn of or the child 1 he lie was unlike other children lie Ill seldom sd- sd sel sel- ti dom If i If ever participated ever participated In the theames games ames played at school Alone he would wander through h the woo woods s that his country co home homo by the hour listening to the birds birds' song marI marv martlIn mar- mar v fling vi-hing at tho the strange wild creatures I that cro crossed d his path Even then lien the tho poetical nature of or the lie child was wa struggling struggling gling for Cor expression At tire the tender lender ng age of eight the boy oy heeded the of or the s iliUM voice which whispered so o man many beautiful things timIngs to him arid and with pencil pen pen- cil lIl and tips scraps o of paper wrote some sonic of or those thoS whisperings down And then it was discovered by his parents that he lie could write Cr very ver clever verses for Cor one umie so young When only ten temi years yearn old he ime composed and publicly public I ly delivered a rhymed address Four years later he lie wrote a political satire In verse imitating to a a. nicety thc tle of Pope At the tho expiration of another four Cour years William Cullen Bryant Brant scribbled on an un old sh sheet et of or paper tho found and amid published publish poem orm which when Ilu e ed a few years later latel g gave ge e him fame rame It 11 W was 8 his first t great poem on one which man many literary critics claim us t his lest best that poi hot familiar familial to all the world orld Bryant Iha Brant that knows Inow the name I no 13 0 S is Mary Graham |
