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...attach the question of what constitutes an appropriate canon of American literature. The Ducykinck brothers Cyclopedia of American Literature reflected the editors' Democratic Party allegiances; it was capacious and ambitious, manifest in its literary destiny. It included writers from every region of the country, including the western frontier and the South. Rufus Griswold's Poets and Poetry of America reflected the editor's Boston Whig cultural background. New Englanders dominated; no westerners were included. Literature of merit embodied Whig, not...
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