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.