Fireside Poets
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The Fireside Poets were a group of 19th-century New England writers known for their accessible, morally themed, and often patriotic poetry that was widely read in American households.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fireside Poets canonical | 8 |
| Household Poets | 1 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary movement
ⓘ
poetic group ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Fireside Poets
ⓘ
surface form:
Household Poets
Schoolroom Poets ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
American nationalism
ⓘ
abolitionism ⓘ temperance movement ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| culturalRole |
provided shared national texts for memorization
ⓘ
shaped 19th-century American literary taste ⓘ |
| genre | poetry ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
ⓘ
James Russell Lowell ⓘ John Greenleaf Whittier ⓘ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. ⓘ William Cullen Bryant ⓘ |
| influenced |
American popular poetry
ⓘ
American schoolroom curricula ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Romanticism
ⓘ
surface form:
British Romanticism
Lord Byron ⓘ Sir Walter Scott ⓘ William Wordsworth ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryStatus | canonized in 19th-century American education ⓘ |
| locatedIn | New England ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
accessible language
ⓘ
appeal to family audiences ⓘ conventional poetic forms ⓘ didactic tone ⓘ moral themes ⓘ patriotic themes ⓘ suitability for public recitation ⓘ use of rhyme and meter ⓘ |
| period | American Romanticism ⓘ |
| publicationMedium |
magazines
ⓘ
newspapers ⓘ poetry collections ⓘ |
| readership |
American households
ⓘ
schoolchildren ⓘ |
| region | New England ⓘ |
| style |
formal
ⓘ
narrative ⓘ sentimental ⓘ |
| typicalSetting | American landscape ⓘ |
| typicalSubject |
family life
ⓘ
history ⓘ nature ⓘ religion ⓘ |
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Household Poets