Hudson River School (PowerPoint; best seen with Internet Explorer)

"William Cullen Bryant" from Strangers to Us All: Lawyers and Poetry. This site contains links to HTML versions of Bryant's poems, a secondary bibliography, reviews (including those by Edgar Allan Poe), and several pictures of Bryant. 
Guide to the William Cullen Bryant Collection at the University of Virginia
Biographical sketch from a graduate course at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Photograph of Bryant from the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery
Information and questions from the Heath Anthology site.
Publication information about Poems (1840)
The William Cullen Bryant Homestead site includes a picture of Bryant's house.
Bibliography and study questions from Paul Reuben's PAL site.
Picture and information at the Bryant Library page. 
 

Kindred Spirits, a picture of William Cullen Bryant and Thomas Cole by Asher B. Durand (1849). Original at the New York Public Library. Image courtesy of  Sandra Hildreth's NEH-supported Hudson River Paintings site.

Poems in HTML format from bartleby.com
Poems. Searchable database of the entire 1840 edition at the University of Michigan. 

Selected poems from this collection:
THANATOPSIS.
TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN
THE YELLOW VIOLET.
FOREST HYMN.
TO A WATERFOWL.
THE JOURNEY OF LIFE.
THE PRAIRIES.
HYMN TO THE NORTH STAR.
SONNET--TO COLE, THE PAINTER DEPARTING FOR EUROPE.
MONUMENT MOUNTAIN. 
THE HUNTER'S VISION.
CATTERSKILL FALLS.
THE HUNTER OF THE PRAIRIES.
THE PRAIRIES.
THE INDIAN GIRL'S LAMENT.
AN INDIAN AT THE BURIAL-PLACE OF HIS FATHERS.