Schoolroom Poets
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The Schoolroom Poets were a group of 19th-century American poets, including figures like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and John Greenleaf Whittier, whose morally instructive and accessible verse was widely memorized and recited in schools.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| In School-Days | 2 |
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
group of poets
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literary movement ⓘ |
| alternativeName | Fireside Poets ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
American middle-class culture
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Victorian moral values ⓘ |
| characteristic |
accessible language
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didactic themes ⓘ domestic themes ⓘ morally instructive verse ⓘ patriotic themes ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| criticalReception | highly popular with 19th-century general readership ⓘ |
| culturalRole |
helped shape American national identity
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standardized a canon of school poetry in the United States ⓘ |
| educationalPractice |
students memorized their poems
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students recited their poems aloud in class ⓘ |
| educationalRole |
provided material for elocution practice
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used for moral education ⓘ used for reading instruction ⓘ |
| followedBy | American modernist poetry ⓘ |
| genre | poetry ⓘ |
| influenceOn |
American school curricula
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memorization practices in American schools ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| laterReception | criticized for sentimentality by 20th-century critics ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
conventional meter and rhyme
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narrative and lyric forms ⓘ |
| medium |
newspapers and magazines
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printed school readers ⓘ |
| movement | 19th-century American poetry ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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James Russell Lowell ⓘ John Greenleaf Whittier ⓘ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. ⓘ William Cullen Bryant ⓘ |
| precededBy | early American colonial poetry ⓘ |
| region | New England ⓘ |
| theme |
American nationalism
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family life ⓘ moral instruction ⓘ nature ⓘ piety ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| typicalSetting | schoolroom recitation ⓘ |
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
John Greenleaf Whittier
this entity surface form:
In School-Days
this entity surface form:
In School-Days