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    The Boston Brahmins


    The Boston Brahmins was a group of Boston writes. Most Brahmins came from rich old
    Boston families. They looked to England for excellence but considered Boston as the
    thinking center of the American continent. In 1857 the club started its own magazine the
    Atlantic Monthly. Through this magazine they tried to influence the intellectual life of
    the new American republic. Their membership included:

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:


    His poetry spoke directly to the hearts of ordinary Americans by saying exactly the things
    most Americans wanted to hear. In his poems he recommended and active, healthy life,
    encouraged idealism and preferred to express the simple dreams of average humanity.
    His language is always simple and easy to understand. Longfellow was the most famous
    member of The Boston Brahmins.

    His poems include:


    A Psalm of Life.
    Excelsior.
    The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls (Religious poem).

    His ballads were:

    Evangeline.
    The song of Hiawatha.
    The Courtship of Miles Standish.

    In these, Henry Wadsworth borrowed (or invented) legends of colonial times and made
    them into popular stories known to all Americans.

    Oliver Wendell Holmes:


    He had invented the name Brahmin and was among the first to write for the magazine
    Atlantic Monthly. With his best work The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Holmes
    gained great popularity in the United States. Through the character of The Autocrat,
    Holmes expresses opinions on many different subjects; the superiority of Boston culture is
    his favorite. Holmes was especially good at humorous poetry and used his humor to
    manifest his strong likes and dislikes.
    Autocrat of the Breakfast Table.
    The Deacons Masterpiece (This poem was a clever attack on Puritan Calvinism).
    Oliver Wendell Holmes was also the author of several novels centered on medical
    problems, he called them Medicated Novels.

    Medicated Novels:
    Elsie Venner (His best novel, Elsie Venner and The Guardian Angel express
    strong anti-Calvinist opinions)
    The Guardian Angel.
    A Mortal Antipathy (It has a rather modern psychological theme).

    James Russell Lowell:


    Lowell was admired as the perfect aristocratic man of literature. His poetry often
    contained a political message (against American policy during the Mexican War or to
    support the North during the Civil War).

    The Biglow Papers ( 1st Series: Mexican War and 2nd Series: Civil War)
    A Fable for Critics (The author makes fun of many of his fellow writers)

    In life James Russell Lowell was also an important literary critic. He had wider interests
    that the other Brahmins and his essays are still read and studied today.

    Historians

    Among the Brahmins there we several important historians:

    George Bancroft: His History of the United States was the first successful
    attempt to place American history in the mainstream of historical events.
    William Hickling Prescott: He wrote the classic History of Ferdinand and
    Isabella.
    Fancis Parkman: Who wrote The Oregon Trail is perhaps the greatest of them.

    John Greenleaf Whittier:


    Whittier Was a New England poet who came from a family of ordinary farmers rather than
    from the Boston aristocracy. His best poetry always spoke about the most beautiful things
    of life. He was a strong supporter of abolitionism and wrote several poems against slavery.

    Snow-Bound (His best poem is not about slavery, Snow-Bound describes an


    experience that he and his family had when they were shut in from all the world).

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