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All poems of William Cullen Bryant Â». an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post. Bryant was born on November 3, 1794, in a log cabin near Cummington, Massachusetts; the home of his birth is today marked with a plaque. He was the second son of Peter Bryant, a doctor and later a state legislator, and Sarah Snell.
Introduction to Thanatopsis. William Cullen Bryant was a poet who lived and wrote during what is known as the era of Romanticism. Romanticism involved nature, individualism, emotions, and the imagination. Bryant wrote this poem in the early 1800s, most likely in 1813 or shortly thereafter, when there was a great deal of poetry being written about mortality (the poets writing such works were known as Graveyard Poets).