Excerpt from The Life, Character and Writings of William Cullen: Bryant a Commemorative Address Of Irving's life. Now Bryant has followed Cooper and Irving, the last of that early triumvirate of American literature, not less renowned than the great triumvirate of Amer ican politics, and he whose life began before the century leaves behind but one of his early literary contemporaries. The vener able poet Dana, friend of Bryant's youth, at an age prolonged beyond fourscore and ten. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.