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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC06631.03 |
| From Archive Folder | Letters and poems of Bryant and Holmes |
| Title | Verse from William Cullen Bryant's poem, The Battlefield |
| Date | 18 May 1878 |
| Author | Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878) |
| Document Type | Miscellany |
| Content Description | Verse from Bryant's poem, "Truth crushed to earth, shall rise again/The eternal years of God are here. But Error, wounded, writhed in pain/And dies amid his worshippers." Signed and dated, New York, May 18th, 1878. |
| Subjects | Literature and Language Arts Poetry Religion |
| People | Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878) |
| Place written | New York, New York |
| Theme | Arts & Literature |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945 |
| Additional Information | Bryant worked as a lawyer in Northampton, Plainfield, and Great Barrington, Massachusetts until 1825 when he married and moved to New York City. He worked for the New York Review and then the New York Evening Post. First an associate editor, he later became editor in 1829 and remained in that post until his death. As the driving force of this liberal and literate paper, he was strongly anti-slavery. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |