March 02, 2008

The Fireside Poets

I have already published here in my blog poems of two authors that were members of this group. "The Fireside Poets" were so called for their influence in the American culture on the 19th century, when families would gather around the fire and recite poems to spend some quality time to spend the evening. The Fireside Poets were:

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

William Cullen Bryant 

William Cullen Bryant

 John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier

 James Russel Lowell

James Russel Lowell

 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

For the first time a group of American poets rivaled with English poets in popularity in America and throughout the world. The subject of their poems went from normal topics of domestic life to politics of their country. I'll try to post at least one poem from each of them.

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