... in an office in Worthington. Despite his diligence in his legal studies, poetry still was beating his heart. By this time Bryant read Wordsworth for the first time. The influence of Lyrical Ballads in his poetry is to be recognized, since Wordsworth is regarded as the supreme interpreter of nature, a main feature in his poetry, together with the simplicity of naturalness of his verse ... image of death, as a chance to rest forever and become one with nature. I will be able to say that in its implicit pantheism the poem looks at once backward to Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads and forward t...

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