Poems of American Patriotism

Poetry has been used as a tool to celebrate nations for as long as the art form has been alive. In this turn of the century volume James Brander Matthews, in his time an acclaimed American scholar and educator of literature, collects some of the most memorable and distinctive poetry to ever be written in honor of the United States. From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s ‘Paul Revere’s Ride’ to the Theodore O’Hara’s ‘How Old Brown Took Harper’s Ferry’, Matthews painstakingly anthologizes some of the g…