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===19th century===
[[File:Whitman-young.jpg|thumb|left|[[Walt Whitman]], 1856]]
The [[Fireside Poets]] (also known as the Schoolroom or Household Poets) were some of America's first major poets domestically and internationally. They were known for their poems being easy to memorize due to their general adherence to poetic form (standard [[Poetry#Form|form]]s, regular [[Meter (poetry)|meter]], and [[rhyme]]d [[stanza]]s) and were often recited in the home (hence the name) as well as in school (such as "[[Paul Revere's Ride (poem)|Paul Revere's Ride]]"), as well as working with distinctly American themes, including some political issues such as abolition. They included [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]], [[William Cullen Bryant]], [[John Greenleaf Whittier]], [[James Russell Lowell]], and [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.]]. Longfellow achieved the highest level of acclaim and is often considered the first internationally acclaimed American poet, being the first American poet given a bust in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner.[[http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5654 "A Brief Guide to the Fireside Poets"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116214914/http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5654 |date=January 16, 2014 }} at [http://www.Poets.org Poets.org]. Accessed 10-07-2015]
[[Walt Whitman]] (1819–1892) and [[Emily Dickinson]] (1830–1886), two of America's greatest 19th-century poets could hardly have been more different in temperament and style. [[Walt Whitman]] was a working man, a traveler, a self-appointed nurse during the [[American Civil War]] (1861–1865), and a poetic innovator. His magnum opus was ''[[Leaves of Grass]]'', in which he uses a free-flowing verse and lines of irregular length to depict the all-inclusiveness of American democracy. Taking that motif one step further, the poet equates the vast range of American experience with himself without being egotistical. For example, in ''[[Song of Myself]]'', the long, central poem in ''Leaves of Grass'', Whitman writes: "These are really the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me ..."
In his words Whitman was a poet of "the body electric". In ''[[Studies in Classic American Literature]]'', the English novelist [[D. H. Lawrence]] wrote that Whitman "was the first to smash the old moral conception that the soul of man is something 'superior' and 'above' the flesh."
By contrast, [[Emily Dickinson]] lived the sheltered life of a genteel unmarried woman in small-town [[Amherst, Massachusetts]]. Her poetry is ingenious, witty, and penetrating. Her work was unconventional for its day, and little of it was published during her lifetime. Many of her poems dwell on the topic of death, often with a mischievous twist. One, "[[Because I could not stop for Death]]", begins, "He kindly stopped for me." The opening of another Dickinson poem toys with her position as a woman in a male-dominated society and an unrecognized poet: "I'm nobody! Who are you? / Are you nobody too?" [{{Cite web|url=http://www.edickinson.org/search|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180124023453/http://www.edickinson.org/search|url-status=dead|archive-date=2018-01-24|title=Emily Dickinson Archive|date=2018-01-24|access-date=2018-01-24}}]
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