" For ten points, name this man best known for poems such as "The Death of the Flowers" and "Thanatopsis."
He gave the funeral oration for the artist Thomas Cole, with whom he is depicted in the painting Kindred Spirits by Asher B. Durand. During his later life he was preoccupied with his blank verse translation of the Iliad, which he published in 1870, in his ongoing role as part owner and editor-in-chief of the New York Evening Post. His most famous poem, published when he was only 17, tells of "The innumerable caravan which moves / To that mysterious realm, where each shall take / His chamber in the silent halls of death." For ten points, name this man best known for poems such as "The Death of the Flowers" and "Thanatopsis."
He gave the funeral oration for the artist Thomas Cole, with whom he is depicted in the painting Kindred Spirits by Asher B. Durand.
William Cullen {Bryant}