1. Forest shadows: prose: Norbert Krapf: William Cullen Bryant's Roslyn poems --

Vince Clemente: Bryant's "To a waterfowl" and the painter W.S. Mount --

Richard Wilbur: A word from Cummington --

William Jay Smith: The Bryant cottage in Cummington --

John Hollander: William Cullen Bryant as poet --

Aaron Kramer: William Cullen Bryant as poet of liberty --

Robert Morgan: Bryant's solitary glimpse of paradise --

Richard Elman: Yvor Winters, Wallace Stevens, and "Thanatopsis" --

Richard Eberhart: Memory of learning "Thanatopsis" in youth --

Paul Engle: Two Long Island voices heard in the heartland --

Norbert Krapf: Walking with Walt Whitman and William Cullen Bryant: a fantasy --

2. Underground tide: poems: Norbert Krapf: By the waters of Cedarmere --

William Stafford: At Bryant's grave --

Reva Sharon: Lines to William Cullen Bryant --

Robyn Supraner: Midas' daughter --

Linda Pastan: Rereading "Thanatopsis" --

Reva Sharon: Winterscape-1984 --

William Heyen: Downriver --

Philip Appleman: After "Thanatopsis" --

Peter Michelson: Pantoum for William Cullen Bryan --

Jared Carter: Raccoon Grove --

Albert F. McLean: William Cullen Bryan at the tomb of Napoleon Bonaparte --

Richard Elman: Autumn at Mill Pond --

Grace Volick: Bryant's vision --

William Stafford: A wedge of oak.