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William Cullen Bryant

1794 - 1878

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William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 – June 12, 1878) was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post. Born in Massachusetts, he started his career as a lawyer but showed an interest in poetry early in his life. In 1825, Bryant relocated to New York City, where he became an editor of two major newspapers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Cullen Bryant has received more than 696,206 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. William Cullen Bryant is the 5,248th most popular writer (down from 4,472nd in 2019), the 7,592nd most popular biography from United States (down from 6,280th in 2019) and the 593rd most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 700k

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  • 46.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Prose writings of William Cullen Bryant
Accessible book
1884
Thanatopsis
1817
Poems
American Poets
1800
Letters of a traveller
Description and travel
1850
A new library of poetry and song
English poetry, American poetry, Accessible book
1876
Poems by William Cullen Bryant
Accessible book
1849

Among WRITERS

Among writers, William Cullen Bryant ranks 5,248 out of 7,302. Before him are Katherine Neville, Georg Calixtus, Ahmet Haşim, Thomas Ligotti, Kim Myeong-sun, and Erico Verissimo. After him are Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie, Thomas Love Peacock, Candace Bushnell, Sara Paretsky, Jiang Rong, and Jacques Laurent.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1794, William Cullen Bryant ranks 65. Before him are Umihana Čuvidina, Princess Ida of Saxe-Meiningen, Sabin Berthelot, José Justo Corro, Valentín Canalizo, and Miklós Jósika. After him are Dwarkanath Tagore, George Grote, Barthélémy de Theux de Meylandt, Sylvester Graham, Feargus O'Connor, and Thomas Corwin. Among people deceased in 1878, William Cullen Bryant ranks 59. Before him are Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine, Manuel Pardo, Palladius, William M. Tweed, Jaroslav Čermák, and Thomas Thomson. After him are Nicolae Golescu, Aleardo Aleardi, George Back, Andrew Scott Waugh, Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, and Francisco Linares Alcántara.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Cullen Bryant ranks 7,592 out of 20,380. Before him are Katherine Neville (1945), Corey Feldman (1971), Thomas Ligotti (1953), Nancy Kelly (1921), Jerry Hardin (1929), and Alessandro Nivola (1972). After him are Bob Welch (1945), Barbara Loden (1932), Bernard Hopkins (1965), Alley Mills (1951), Barbara Broccoli (1960), and Jimmy Dorsey (1904).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, William Cullen Bryant ranks 593. Before him are Theodora Kroeber (1897), William F. Buckley Jr. (1925), Fran Lebowitz (1950), Leo Buscaglia (1924), Katherine Neville (1945), and Thomas Ligotti (1953). After him are Candace Bushnell (1958), Sara Paretsky (1947), Julia Ward Howe (1819), Chester Himes (1909), Holly Black (1971), and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950).

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