Of his other poems, a large number were written for the _United States Literary Gazette_, and the various magazines he edited in New York. When he became editor of the _Evening Post_ he continued to edit the _United States Review and Literary Gazette_, until it was discontinued. After that he assisted in editing an annual called _The Talisman_, which appeared regularly until 1829. To this he contributed a considerable number of poems. But now for several years he wrote but little poetry, giving all his time and energy to the newspaper. In 1831, however, he published a second collection of his poems. There were eighty in the volume. Then he thought he would see how they would be received in England. He had a friend who knew Washington Irving. Irving was a famous writer at this time, and his publisher was John Murray, one of the greatest of English publishers. Bryant obtained an introduction to Irving by letter, and asked him to assist in getting Murray to bring out a London edition of his poems. Murray would not do it, however. But Irving admired Bryant’s work, and after a time he found another publisher who was willing to bring out the volume. He himself wrote an introduction, and dedicated the book to Rogers, the fashionable poet of England at that time. But before the book came out the publisher, a fussy old man, came to Irving and said it would never do to print in England the line, And the British foeman trembles. That would be sure to offend the stolid Briton’s pride. So Irving changed the line to The foeman trembles in his camp. Years afterward there was some controversy over this change on the part of Irving; but Irving and Bryant always remained good friends. Other volumes of his collected poems were published from time to time after this; but they are not important. The only other great poetic work that Bryant attempted was his translation of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. When he translated these grand Greek poems into English blank verse he was already quite an old man. His wife had died, and he wished some regular work, aside from his paper, that would claim his thoughts. So he made it a practice to translate a few lines every day. This he kept up for a number of years, until he had translated the whole of both these long poems. For this he probably received more money than for all his other poems put together—over seventeen thousand dollars in all.