William Cullen Bryant and Philip Freneau, two poets, were both infatuated with land that was untouched by humans and its unending beauty. This infatuation and their descriptive poems gave America it’s own original art. William Cullen Bryant describes America’s beauty in one of his many poems called “The Prairies.” In this poem, he describes the vastness of America saying, “The surface rolls and fluctuates to the eye/ Dark hollows seem to glide along and chase the sunny ridges” (13/14). He goes on to ask if anyone of his readers has seen a scene better than this and in the second stanza he attributes this beauty to “a race, that long has passed away” (45). Bryant gives credit to this race for building the beautiful, flowing fields that he
