id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7310 Fireside poets - Wikipedia .html text/html 2224 246 70 The group is typically thought to include Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.,[2] who were the first American poets whose popularity rivaled that of British poets, both at home and abroad. In 1901, Emerson and Longfellow were inducted as inaugural members of the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, which added Lowell and Whittier in 1905 and Holmes and Bryant in 1910.[14] Longfellow was commemorated with a bust in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey in London; he was the first non-British writer honored this way and remains the only American poet represented with a bust.[17] Even before the end of the century, however, Lowell acknowledged a change in the poetic climate and feared the erasure of gentlemanly gentility in emerging poetry. "Longfellow in the Aftermath of Modernism" in The Columbia History of American Poetry, edited by Jay Parini. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7310.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7310.txt