Lines written by him can be found as epigraphs in Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans.
Lines written by him can be found as epigraphs in Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans. Often inspired by nature in poems such as "The White-Footed Deer," "The Yellow Violet," and "To a Fringed Gentian," one of his better-known poems asks of a titular bird, "dost thou pursue thy solitary way?" He exhorts those who fear to face death with courage in an 1817 poem whose title literally means "meditation on death." For 10 points, name this American poet of "To a Waterfowl" and "Thanatopsis".
Lines written by him can be found as epigraphs in Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans.
William Cullen {Bryant}