American Literature / Unit 6 AML 0519 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Longfellow and the Boston Brahmins
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The idea
The witness names Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes and James Russell Lowell the most important Boston Brahmin poets. Longfellow, professor of modern languages at Harvard, was the best-known American poet of his day, credited with a legendary sense of the past.
In practice
Harvard, and a nation's household poet.
Where people slip
The witness's term is Brahmin, not Fireside.
Your place on the trail
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