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Boston Literature

Colonial Period

• Bradstreet, Anne

Romantic Movement

• Poe, Edgar Allen
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel
• Sprague, Charles

Brahmin Poets

• Holmes, Oliver Wendell
• Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
• Lowell, James Russell
• Whittier, John Greenleaf

Transcendentalists

• Alcott, Louisa May
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Children's Melodies

• Boston's Mother Goose