Table of Contents:
  • 1. Forest shadows: prose: Norbert Krapf: William Cullen Bryant's Roslyn poems
  • Vince Clemente: Bryant's "To a waterfowl" and the painter W.S. Mount
  • Richard Wilbur: A word from Cummington
  • William Jay Smith: The Bryant cottage in Cummington
  • John Hollander: William Cullen Bryant as poet
  • Aaron Kramer: William Cullen Bryant as poet of liberty
  • Robert Morgan: Bryant's solitary glimpse of paradise
  • Richard Elman: Yvor Winters, Wallace Stevens, and "Thanatopsis"
  • Richard Eberhart: Memory of learning "Thanatopsis" in youth
  • Paul Engle: Two Long Island voices heard in the heartland
  • Norbert Krapf: Walking with Walt Whitman and William Cullen Bryant: a fantasy
  • 2. Underground tide: poems: Norbert Krapf: By the waters of Cedarmere
  • William Stafford: At Bryant's grave
  • Reva Sharon: Lines to William Cullen Bryant
  • Robyn Supraner: Midas' daughter
  • Linda Pastan: Rereading "Thanatopsis"
  • Reva Sharon: Winterscape-1984
  • William Heyen: Downriver
  • Philip Appleman: After "Thanatopsis"
  • Peter Michelson: Pantoum for William Cullen Bryan
  • Jared Carter: Raccoon Grove
  • Albert F. McLean: William Cullen Bryan at the tomb of Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Richard Elman: Autumn at Mill Pond
  • Grace Volick: Bryant's vision
  • William Stafford: A wedge of oak.