Fireside Poets

Fireside Poets

The Fireside Poets (also known as the Schoolroom or Household Poets) [ [http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5654 Poets.org] ] were a group of 19th-century American poets from New England.

Overview

The group is typically thought to comprise Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., [Heymann, C. David. "American Aristocracy: The Lives and Times of James Russell, Amy, and Robert Lowell". New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1980: 91. ISBN 0396076084] who were the first American poets whose popularity rivaled that of British poets, both at home and abroad. The name "Fireside Poets" is derived from that popularity: The Fireside Poets' general adherence to poetic convention—standard forms, regular meter, and rhymed stanzas—made their body of work particularly suitable for memorization and recitation in school and also at home, where it was a source of entertainment for families gathered around the fire. The poets' primary subjects were the domestic life, mythology, and politics of America, in which several of the poets were directly involved.

Longfellow, Lowell, and Holmes are featured in the bestselling novel "The Dante Club" by Matthew Pearl, published 2003.

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External links

* [http://www.bartleby.com/102/ Yale Book of American Verse] at Bartleby.com
* [http://www.bartleby.com/248/ An American Anthology, 1787–1900] at Bartleby.com
* [http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5654 Information on the Fireside Poets] from the Academy of American Poets
* [http://www.huffenglish.com/powerpoints/The%20Fireside%20Poets.ppt PowerPoint presentation on the Fireside Poets] from HuffEnglish.com


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