to Samuel Rogers, Esq., pp. iii-vi, signed Washington Irving, London, March, 1832. Author's Preface, pp. vii

viii, viz.:

Most of the following poems have been already printed. The longest, entitled The Ages, was published in 1821, in a thin volume, along with about half a dozen others now included in this collection. With a few exceptions, the remainder have since appeared in different publications, mostly of the periodical kind. The favour with which the public have regarded them, and of which their republication in various compilations seemed to the author a proof, has induced him to collect them into a volume. In preparing them for the press, he has made such corrections as occurred to him on subjecting them to a careful revision. Sensible as he is that no author had ever more cause of gratitude to his countrymen for the indulgent estimate placed by them on his literary attempts, he yet cannot let this volume go forth to the public without a feeling of apprehension, both that it may contain things which did not deserve admission, and that the entire collection may not be thought worthy of the generous and partial judgment which has been passed upon some of the separate poems.

"When the Firmament quivers with Daylight's Young Beam".

136

Poems by William Cullen Bryant. | New York: | Published by E. Bliss, 111 Broadway, | And sold by the principal booksellers. | MDCCCXXXII.

Collation: 12mo, pp. 240. Title as above. Verso, Certificate of Copyright and printer's imprint, as follows:

Entered according to an act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, by W. C. Bryant, in the Clerk's Office of the Court of the United States, for the southern district of New York.

New York: Ludwig & Tolefree,
Printers. Corner Vesey &
Greenwich Streets.

Preface, p. 3. Text, pp. 5-234. Notes, pp. 235-238. Contents,

pp. 239-240.

An edition similar to the above was also printed in Boston in the same year, 1832. The two were in all respects similar.

1834.

Poems | by | William Cullen Bryant. | Boston: | Russell, Odiorne & Metcalf. | 1834.

Collation: 12mo, pp. xii-240. False Title, Bryant's Poems.

Full title as above. Verso, Certificate of Copyright, dated 1831, and printer's imprint. Advertisement, p. v, as follows:

The present edition contains a few poems which were not in the first, and of which two or three have never before appeared in print. The author has also made a few corrections, some of which were suggested by the criticisms which have fallen in his way.

Preface to the First Edition, pp. vii-viii, dated New York, January, 1832. Table of Contents, pp. ix-xi. Three poems which were not in the previous editions of 1832 are: The Prairies; Sonnet, from the Portuguese of Somedo; and The Journey of Life. Text, pp. 1-234. Notes, pp. 235-240.

First Title-Page:

1836.

Poems by William Cullen Bryant. | Vignette, A view near West Point, by R. W. Weir.

"... enter this wild wood,

And view the haunts of nature."

New York: Harper & Brothers | 1836.

Second Title-Page:

P. 180.

Poems by William Cullen Bryant. | Fourth Edition. | New York: Harper & Brothers, Cliff St. | 1836.

Collation: 12mo, pp. xii-274. Title as above. Verso, CopyAdvertisement to the

right, 1835. Sub-title, p. iii.

Second Edition, p. v, as follows:

The present edition contains a few poems which were not in the first, and of which two or three have never before appeared in print. The author has also made a few corrections, some of which were suggested by the criticisms which have fallen in his way.

Preface to the First Edition, New York, January, 1832, pp. viiviii. Contents, pp. ix-xii. Text, pp. 13–267. Notes, pp. 269-274.

The following poems appear in this edition for the first time: Earth, To the Apennines, The Knight's Epitaph, Seventy-six, The Living Lost, The Strange Lady, The Hunter's Vision, Catterskill Falls, The Hunter of the Prairies, The Count of Greiers-From the German, Earth's Children Cleave to Earth.

Four editions of the above collection of poems were made previous to 1839, numbered consecutively from the first to the fifth.

1839.

Poems by William Cullen Bryant. | Fifth Edition. | New York: Harper & Brothers, Cliff St. | 1839.

Collation: 12mo, pp. xii-276. Title as above. Verso, Copyright, 1836. Sub-title, p. iii. Advertisement to the Fifth Edition, p. v, as follows:

The present edition, by the advice of the publishers, is somewhat enlarged. A few corrections have also been made in the text of the poems which were published in the other editions.

Preface to the First Edition, New York, January, 1832, pp. viiviii. Contents, pp. ix-xii. Text, pp. 13-269. Notes,

pp. 271-276.

There

The only new poem in this edition is The Battlefield, p. 268.
seem to have been at least five reprints of this edition; the last, which
is called the tenth edition, having been published in 1843. The
destruction by fire of the records of Harper Bros. makes it difficult to
be more accurate on this point.

1842.

The Fountain | and | other Poems. | By William Cullen Bryant. New York and London: Wiley and Putnam. | 1842.