page_title: History of Portland, Maine
section_title: Regional cosmopolitan capital
hierarchical_section_title: History of Portland, Maine / Regional cosmopolitan capital
caption_attribution_description: English: Exhibit in the Portland Museum of Art - Portland, Maine, USA.
context_page_description: The History of Portland, Maine begins when the area was called Machigonne, meaning "great neck," by Algonquians who originally inhabited the peninsula. It extends to the city's recent cultural and economic renaissance.
context_section_description: Portland's period of greatest cosmopolitan prominence was in the first four decades of the nineteenth century, when the city was "a rival, and not a satellite of either Boston or New York." In that period, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow got his start as a young poet and John Neal held a central position in leading American literature toward its great renaissance. Other notable literary or artistic figures who got their start or were at their prime in that period include Grenville Mellen, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Seba Smith, Elizabeth Oakes Smith, Benjamin Paul Akers, Charles Codman, Franklin Simmons, John Rollin Tilton, and Harrison Bird Brown.
caption: Eccentric and influential writer and critic, John Neal
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