VIII.
Intellectual.
(American.)
Lowell, Taylor and Irving stand foremost among the literature of the day.
James Russell Lowell, Henry Longfellow, Whittier and Horthorn have all written pieces of some note.
Bryant while still a child wrote thanatopsis and then became editor of a paper and lived for many years after.
A sort of sadness kind of shone in Bryant’s poems.
The Brasebrig Hall and of the Spy was also written by Bryant.
Washington Irving was a great poet and prose.
Bracebridge Hall was written by Henry Irving.