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	Fireside Poets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Fireside Poets (also known as the Schoolroom or Household Poets) were a group of 19th-century American poets from New England.
		The 'Fireside Poets' general adherence to expected poetic convention—standard forms, regular meter, and rhymed stanzas—made their body of work particularly suitable for memorization and recitation, both in schools and at home, where it was a source of entertainment for families gathered around the fire.
		The poets took as their primary subject matter American domestic life, mythology, and politics, in which several of the poets were directly involved.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fireside_Poets (213 words)

	Fireside - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fireside can refer to refers to the location adjacent to a fire ring or fireplace.
		Fireside Poets, a group of 19th-century American poets from New England
		Fireside is common terminology in the Bahá'í Faith, referring to informal meetings for discussion of Bahá'í teachings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fireside (157 words)

	American Literature: Poetry - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Most Puritan poets saw the purpose of poetry as careful Christian examination of their lives; and private poems, like Puritan diaries, served as a forum where the self could be measured daily against devout expectations.
		Pound believed the poet should be a citizen of the world and a contemporary of all the ages, able to learn from excellence wherever and whenever it appeared.
		Although the early confessional poets rarely used their poetry to explore political issues, their investigations of how personal identity is constructed laid the ground for a more openly political poetry that emerged in America in the late 1950s and was still written at the century’s close.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArtTextOnly.aspx?refid=761596671&find=1 (9451 words)

	Fireside Poets : Poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Morgan begins by examining in succinct fireside poets and challenging essays the elements of poetry fireside poets and poetry writing in general, emphasizing the poet`s responsibility to provide, as the title suggests, good measure.
		Finally, there are interviews with Morgan by other poets: lively discussions of southern writing, the experience of being a poet in America today, fireside poets and the influence of Morgan`s Appalachian background on his own vocation fireside poets and career as a poet.
		In addition, an extended section is devoted to examples of the art of the manifesto fireside poets and two smaller groupings of traditional oral poets fireside poets and of experimenters with machine art fireside poets and cyberpoetics.
	www.diesselaspezia.com /103-Fireside-Poets.html (1240 words)

	English 251: American Lit. (1600-1865)
		These writers, the so-called "Fireside Poets" (because of the homespun, familiar, conventional qualities of their verse), were the dominant poets of their time.
		Emerson and the Fireside Poets would often deal with social themes such as slavery, but nothing in their verse prepared readers for Whitman's focus on the body, its processes and desires; the body, and its desires for free expression are, for Whitman, a metaphor of his broader politics.
		Where Emerson and the Fireside Poets were educated at New England's best colleges, Whitman had just over 5 years of schooling before he was apprenticed out as a printer (shades of Ben Franklin!).
	www.uky.edu /AS/English/courses/online/eng251/assignment29.html (948 words)

	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - MSN Encarta
		In 1884 a bust of Longfellow was placed in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey in London; he was the first American to be thus honored.
		Most modern critics, however, are not in accord with the high opinion that was generally held of the author by his contemporaries, and his works are often criticized as sentimental.
		Nevertheless, Longfellow remains one of the most popular of American poets, primarily for his simplicity of style and theme and for his technical expertise, but also for his role in the creation of an American mythology.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761564315 (333 words)

	Poets
		His first appearance as a poet was in Egypt, but as he failed to make a living there he went to Damascus, and then to Mosul.
		Mala Ahmade Bate or Bateyi, (Mela Ehmedê Batê or Melayê Batê in Kurdish), (1417 – 1491), was a Kurdish poet and cleric.
		Andrée Chedid is a poet and novelist, born in 1920 in Cairo from Lebanese parents.
	www.shortopedia.com /P/O/Poets (1838 words)

	William Cullen Bryant - MSN Encarta
		William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), American poet and journalist, born in Cummington, Massachusetts, and trained in law.
		The first draft of “Thanatopsis,” his most famous poem, was written when he was 16 years of age, and he was only 27 years old when his first published volume, Poems, appeared in 1821.
		He produced several volumes of verse, none of which is considered equal to the poems he wrote in his youth.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761566052/William_Cullen_Bryant.html (311 words)

	Poetry
		Sometimes grouped with the Fireside Poets is Ralph Waldo Emerson, best known as a lecturer, essayist, and the doyen of New England transcendentalism, but also the author of such once-revered poems as "Concord Hymn" (1837) and "The Snow-Storm" (1841).
		Urging poets to be visionary rather than literary, to use organic rather than predetermined forms, and to exploit hitherto unsung native materials, Emerson contributed profoundly to the nineteenth-century American effort to formulate an indigenous theory of poetry and to achieve literary independence from British and European culture.
		Among the poets published in the early issues of Poetry were Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Edgar Lee Masters, Sara Teasdale, and Elinor Wylie--all minor figures, to be sure, but notable for their contributions, either in theme or technique, to the flowering of modernism.
	www.anb.org /cush_poetry.html (2498 words)

	Laura Wells's Review
		Poets of this strain, such as Eliot, see themselves as made by the world, no longer believing that it suffices simply to put the self and his view of the world into verse; in such a disillusionment, these figures seek large structures of belief.
		Through famous quotations about the "anti-poetic" culture preceding the Renaissance poets, Pearce suggests that this environment was a stimulus for them to construct their new views of man and his world.
		With well-selected illustrative quotes, he supports his argument that she is "the most direct expression" of the nineteenth-century egocentric style because she is "simply and starkly concerned with being herself and accommodating her view of the world to that concern" (174).
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /railton/enam312/enam712/712wells.html (1304 words)

	More on Poets
		For example, in Anglo-Saxon a poet is a scop (shaper or maker) and in Scots makar.
		Written composition also meant that poets began to compose not for an audience that was sitting in front of them but for an absent reader.
		Poets were now writing more for the eye than for the ear.
	www.artilifes.com /poets.htm (1892 words)

	Female Poets : Poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Emma Donoghue's introduction deftly guides readers into the rich tradition of women's poetry in English, exploring the relationships between poets female poets and their muses female poets and poets female poets and their cultures.
		Work by female poets Rae Armantrout, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Lucie Brock Broido, Jorie Graham, Barbara Guest, Lyn Hejinian, Brenda Hillman, Susan Howe, Ann Lauterbach, female poets and Harryette Mullen is assembled here with an eye to emphasize the role gender plays in contemporary poetics.
		The work of nearly 200 female poets is chronologically collected here, presenting many diverse voices all but lost to history alongside those who have attained a certain amount of canonization against all odds, such as Anne Bradstreet female poets and Anne Finch.
	www.diesselaspezia.com /102-Female-Poets.html (896 words)

	The Academy of American Poets - A Brief Guide to the Fireside Poets
		The Fireside poets (also called the "schoolroom" or "household" poets) were the first group of American poets to rival British poets in popularity in either country.
		In general, these poets preferred conventional forms over experimentation, and this attention to rhyme and strict metrical cadences made their work popular for memorization and recitation in classrooms and homes.
		They did not hesitate to address issues that were divisive and highly charged in their day, and in fact used the sentimental tone in their poems to encourage their audience to consider these issues in less abstract and more personal terms.
	www.poets.org /viewmedia.php/prmMID/5654 (331 words)

	English 611 Nineteenth-Century American Literature
		Objectives: The “Fireside Poets,” as nineteenth-century Romantics like Bryant, Longfellow, Holmes, Whittier, and Lowell were collectively dubbed, constituted the first American writing thought to be worthy of teaching alongside British literature.
		Since the rise to academic dominance of Modernism and New Criticism, however, those once widely popular and critically respected writers are very seldom taught, having been replaced in the canon by the fiction of Hawthorne and Melville, the nonfiction of Emerson and Thoreau, and the poetic tag-team of Whitman and Dickinson.
		Make sure that you don’t simply respond to the poet’s work as a whole, that you perform a close reading of one poem; but you may also discuss those aspects of the poet’s style or thought that are exemplified in the poem you choose.
	www.uaf.edu /english/faculty/heyne/611_syllabus_fall04.html (647 words)

	American Poetry Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lydia Huntley Sigourney, for example, was a popular early-19th-century poet whose work set the themes for other female poets: motherhood, sentiment, and the ever-present threat of death, particularly to children.
		Doolittle all met at the University of Pennsylvania and became part of Pound’s self-declared movement to remake poetry, or, as he said, to “make it new.” The imagist credo called for new rhythms, clear and stripped-down images, free choice of subject matter, concentrated or compressed poetic expression, and use of common speech.
		Marianne Moore, Bishop was an intense observer of exotic and common things, always rendered in a most uncommon language, and many of her observations suggest a psychological dimension not unrelated to the confessional poets.
	www.marcopolopoet.com /American_Poetry_Introduction.htm (7227 words)

	The Academy of American Poets - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
		Poetry Landmark: The Longfellow House in Cambridge, MA
		When the Civil War ended in 1865, the poet was 58.
		His most important work was finished, but his fame kept growing.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/143 (750 words)

	Whirlwind Tour part 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		If we finish everything on the syllabus for today (which is unlikely), we'll have sample a poem from the Colonial period, a poem from the Early National period, two poems by the 19th C Fireside poets, and one poem each by the two great 19th C innovators, Whitman and Dickinson.
		English Metaphysical poets were called that on account of the difficulty of the poems; Dryden said of the Donne--both English poets, the latter a metaphysical poet--that he "affects the metaphysics" with "nice speculations of philosophy" (Oxford Companion to English Literature).
		The poets before the shift, the "Schoolroom" or "Fireside" poets as they are called, constituted the mainstream of American poetry for a considerable time.
	titan.iwu.edu /~wchapman/ampoetry/090204tour1.html (2622 words)

	Daily Celebrations ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lowest Ebb ~ February 27 ~ Ideas to motivate, educate, and inspire
		Romantic poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807—1882) was born on this day in Portland, Maine, the son of a prominent Congressman.
		As a lead member of the Fireside Poets, Longfellow was beloved by the readers of his time.
		Sentimental and conservative, his popularity extended abroad and he was the first American poet honored with a marble bust in England's Westminster Abbey.
	www.dailycelebrations.com /022706.htm (244 words)

	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - The Creative Mind Behind "The Cross of Snow" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Longfellow was one of the fireside poets in the 1800's--a fireside poet meaning that families would gather by the fire and read his poems aloud.
		The only difference between Longfellow and other fireside poets of the time was that he was the most popular.
		A Boston poet, Longfellow was interested in foreign languages and other countrys' literature.
	eric.stamey.com /index2.html (617 words)

	Evangeline.htm
		He is generally grouped with John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell as the "schoolroom" or "fireside" poets, so named because their works were deemed appropriate for classroom memorization and recitation around family hearths.
		Like the other fireside poets, Longfellow's work is aesthetically unchallenging and sentimental; but it should be pointed out that both Longfellow and, especially, Whittier wrote political poetry addressing one of the most deeply-troubling issues of their time, slavery.
		Despite her creation by a non-Acadian poet whose knowledge of Acadia was limited, Evangeline has proved a significant icon of Acadian identity ever since its publication in 1847.
	www.fawi.net /Evangeline.htm (1876 words)

	Cambridge Cohousing - Fireside Reading Series
		Formerly the Fireside Poetry Series, we have changed our name to recognize contributions from prose and memoir writers, though scheduling preference is still given to poets.
		Now in our sixth season, the Fireside Reading Series holds readings by local writers in the Cambridge Cohousing living room, usually on the last Tuesday of each month at 7:30 (there are occasional exceptions, but not this year).
		Poets are encouraged to bring any published works they may have to sell after the readings.
	www.cambridgecohousing.org /poetry/index-2004.html (108 words)

	Focus on Haverhill
		Originally settled as farm land, the city evolved into a major industrial center through the establishment of saw and grist mills in the late 17th century, tanneries and boat yards in the early 18th century and shoe manufacturing, its leading industry for 180 years.
		Haverhill is the birthplace of the Quaker Poet and Abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier, born December 17, 1807.
		Whittier’s popularity continued into the next century, and he was considered one of the 19th century’s "Fireside Poets." The Whittier Homestead is an outstanding example of the old New England farm.
	www.mvcouncil.com /communities/haverhill.html (414 words)

	Whirlwind Tour part 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		And we've set ourselves up to talk about the 19th C, noting that there is a mainstream 19th C poetic tradition exemplified by the Fireside poets, and a handful of poets who are breaking away from that mainstream tradition to chart new directions for American poetry.
		Although as we'll see later in the course, there have been African American poets since the early national period, it is really only in the 20th C, with its massive increase in fl populations in urban areas and in some ways less oppressive conditions, that African American poetry really takes off.
		Adrienne Rich is associated with the second wave of feminism, which began in the 60's, picked up steam though that decade, perhaps reaching the height of activism in the 70's, and continuing on to today despite the anti-feminist backlash of the 80's and 90's.
	titan.iwu.edu /~wchapman/ampoetry/090704tour2.html (2058 words)

	PH@school: Literature: Author Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Finally, because of his devotion to the abolitionist movement, Whittier, unlike the other poets, did not gain national prominence as a poet until late in his life.
		Whittier was born and raised on a farm near Haverhill, Massachusetts.
		He worked as a writer and editor for antislavery newspapers, wrote a large number of antislavery poems, spoke at abolitionist rallies, and became active in politics, serving a term in the Massachusetts legislature.
	phschool.com /atschool/literature/author_biographies/whittier_jg.html (360 words)

	Essex National Heritage
		Thomas Whittier, the pioneer, chose wisely in selecting the site of the homestead when he acquired 148 acres of land beside a brook which could furnish sufficient water for his farm needs and turn the wheel of his grist mill as well.
		Here, in 1688, in a small pleasant valley under the shoulder of Job's Hill, he built the house which was to be the Whittier family homestead for five generations and the birthplace of the Quaker Poet and Abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier on December 17, 1807.
		John Greenleaf Whittier was born in the southwest parlor of the Whittier Homestead.
	www.essexheritage.org /visiting/placestovisit/listofsitesbycommunity/whittier_family.shtml (402 words)

	Lecture Nov 10
		All of them are from Massachusetts, originally came from the upper class, and belonged to the moneyed Brahmin class in Boston at the end of their lives.
		The Fireside Poets wrote a poetry to be read by the fireside by the whole family.
		Bryant was one of the first abolitionists in the United States and one of the first supporters of Lincoln (in fact, all of the Fireside poets were abolitionists).
	angam.ang.univie.ac.at /western2000/lecture05Nov10.htm (1976 words)

	Heath Anthology of American LiteratureRobert Frost - Author Page
		He taught or was a “Poet in Residence” at Amherst, the University of Michigan, and other colleges, and he spent many summers at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in Vermont.
		His early poems are similar to those of nineteenth-century American fireside poets such as Longfellow and English Georgians such as Thomas and Gibson.
		The poet, to Emerson, was a seer whose poems should contain truths analogous to religious revelations.
	college.hmco.com /english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/modern/frost_ro.html (869 words)

	Gesturing Toward the Infinite: Clark Ashton Smith and Modernism by Scott Connors
		The poets of the close of the century display generous quantities of optimism, conventional piety, and sentiment, but not, unfortunately, of originality or skill.
		Two poets now thought of as among America's best from the nineteenth-century, Edgar Poe and Walt Whitman, were not part of the canon, the former being considered too morbid and the latter too earthy.
		Already the young poet's brilliant but too facile craftsmanship was tempted by the worse excesses of the Tennysonian tradition: he never thinks-he deems; he does not ask, but crave; he is fain for this and that; he deals in emperies and auguries and antiphons, in causal throes and lethal voids.
	www.eldritchdark.com /bio/gesturing_toward_the_infinite.html (5034 words)

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