W C BryantWilliam Cullen Bryant was an American poet, journalist, and editor of the New York Evening Post, called "the Founding Father of American poetry," and "the first American writer of verse to win international acclaim" for his Thanatopsis. He resides sqarely within the Romantic poetic tradition, anticipating other American poets in this by over a decade. A fierce proponent of American literary nationalism, he earned the admiration of Edgar Allen Poe and served as literary mentor to Walt Whitman. Read More Read Less