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Born in Massachusetts, he started his career as a lawyer but showed an interest in poetry early in his life. In , Bryant relocated to New York City , where he became an editor of two major newspapers. He also emerged as one of the most significant poets in early literary America and has been grouped among the fireside poets for his accessible and popular poetry.

Bryant was born on November 3, , [ 1 ] in a log cabin near Cummington, Massachusetts ; this home of his birth is commemorated with a plaque. The genealogy of his mother traces back to passengers on the Mayflower , including John Alden — , his wife Priscilla Mullins, and her parents William and Alice Mullins. The story of the romance between John and Priscilla is the subject of a famous narrative poem The Courtship of Miles Standish , by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , who was also their descendant.

I would tell you how, in their youthful days, they took each other as companions for life, and how this union, no less sacred to them than the tie of marriage, has subsisted, in uninterrupted harmony, for more than forty years.

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Bryant and his family moved to a new home when he was two years old. Bryant's boyhood home, William Cullen Bryant Homestead , is now a museum. After just one year at Williams College , which he entered with sophomore standing, Bryant hoped to transfer to Yale. But a talk with his father led him to realize that the family's finances could not support it.

His father advised Bryant to purse a legal career as his best available choice, and the disappointed poet began to study law in Worthington and Bridgewater in Massachusetts.