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To what is the title of steinbeck's novel possibly a literary allusion

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I believe the answer is The title of John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath is an allusion to a phrase in the very open stanza of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” which was sung by supporters of the Union during the American Civil War:

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