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The Triumph of Nationalism/The House Dividing
Topic: Culture of the Common ManTopic: Cult of DomesticityTopic: ReligionTopic: ExpansionTopic: America in 1850
Topic: Religion
Overview of Triumph of Nationalism
Resource Menu: Religion
Text 1. Bryant/Freneau
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Text 2. John Mayfield
Text 3. Alexis de Tocqueville
Text 4. Frederick Douglass
Text 5. George Fitzhugh
Text 6. Charles Colcock Jones
Text 7. Henry David Thoreau
Text 8. Mormons


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1.  William Cullen Bryant,
"To a Waterfowl," 1817,
and
Philip Freneau,
"On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature," 1815


William Cullen BryantPhilip Freneau
Bryant                       Freneau
Links
Bryant:  https://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16148

Freneau:  https://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/9244/


Online
Sources


Poets.org, The Academy of American Poets

Poetry X, Jough Dempsey


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Supplemental
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Bryant
Biography of Bryant, from W. W. Norton & Co.

Copy of "Waterfowl" with annotations, from Virginia Commonwealth University

Freneau
Biography and four poems of Freneau, from site American Poems from Gunnar Bengtsson






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