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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
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With Frowzy Pores, that taint the ambient Air.
Sweating and Puffing for a-while he stood.
And then broke forth in this insulting Mood:Without my Stamp in vain your Poets write.
Those only purchase everliving Fame,That in my Miscellany plant their Name.
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- ↑ "Columbia. Timothy Dwight (1752-1817). I. Patriotism. Bliss Carman, et al., eds. 1904. The World's Best Poetry. VIII. National Spirit". www.bartleby.com. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
- ↑ "Poetry: The Connecticut Wits." American Eras. Vol. 4: Development of a Nation, 1783-1815. Detroit: Gale, 1997. 59-61. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 7 May 2012
- ↑ Stanley L., Block (2000). "Smith, Elihu Hubbard (1771-1798)" . American National Biography. doi:10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1200856. ISBN 978-0-19-860669-7 . Retrieved 2022-01-29.
