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Early American nationalistic poem
"The Rising Glory of America"
1923 Americana auction catalog listing
Original titleA Poem, on the Rising Glory of America; Being an Exercise Delivered at the Public Commencement at Nassau-Hall, September 25, 1771
CountryUnited States
PublisherPrinted by Joseph Crukshank, for R. Aitken, bookseller, opposite the London-Coffee-House, in Front-Street, Philadelphia
Publication date1772

"The Rising Glory of America" is a poem written by "Poet of the Revolution" Philip Freneau with a debated but likely minimal level of involvement from "not quite a Founding Father" Hugh Henry Brackenridge of western Pennsylvania. The poem was first read at their graduation from the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) in 1771. There were two versions published, one before and one after the American Revolutionary War. It was mildly influential in describing a newfound sense of American national identity.

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Explanatory notes

  1. Freneau, Brackenridge, and James Madison were all in the same graduating class.

References

  1. Smeall, J. F. S. (September 1973). "The Respective Roles of Hugh Brackenridge and Philip Freneau in Composing "The Rising Glory of America"". The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. 67 (3): 263–281. doi:10.1086/pbsa.67.3.24301841. ISSN 0006-128X.
  2. Adams, Stephen (2013). "Philip Freneau's Summa of American Exceptionalism: "The Rising Glory of America" without Brackenridge". Texas Studies in Literature and Language. 55 (4): 390–405. doi:10.7560/TSLL55402. ISSN 1534-7303.
  3. Wertheimer, Eric (1994). "Commencement Ceremonies: History and Identity in "The Rising Glory of America," 1771 and 1786". Early American Literature. 29 (1): 35–58. ISSN 0012-8163. JSTOR 25056955.
  4. Kornfeld, Eve (2001), Kornfeld, Eve (ed.), "Inventing an American Language and Literature", Creating an American Culture, 1775–1800: A Brief History with Documents, New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, pp. 83–109, doi:10.1007/978-1-137-03834-0_8, ISBN 978-1-137-03834-0, retrieved 2023-02-09
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