A Brief Guide to the Fireside Poets- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More success fail Sep JAN Jul 16 2012 2014 2015 74 captures 18 Oct 2005 - 27 Jul 2020 About this capture COLLECTED BY Organization: Internet Archive These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved. Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors. The goal is to fix all broken links on the web. Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites. Collection: Wikipedia Near Real Time (from IRC) This is a collection of web page captures from links added to, or changed on, Wikipedia pages. The idea is to bring a reliability to Wikipedia outlinks so that if the pages referenced by Wikipedia articles are changed, or go away, a reader can permanently find what was originally referred to. This is part of the Internet Archive's attempt to rid the web of broken links. TIMESTAMPS View Cart | Log In  Subscribe | More Info  Advanced Search > Want more poems?Subscribe to ourPoem-A-Day emails. FURTHER READING Related Poems Snow-Bound [The sun that brief December day] by John Greenleaf Whittier Introduction to Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The First Snowfall by James Russell Lowell The Last Leaf by Oliver Wendell Holmes The Planting of the Apple-Tree by William Cullen Bryant The Song of Hiawatha [excerpt] by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Evangeline [excerpt] by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Old Ironsides by Oliver Wendell Holmes Related Authors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine—then still part of Massachusetts—on... More > John Greenleaf Whittier An American poet and editor, John Greenleaf Whittier was born December 17, 1807... More > Sponsor a Poet Page | Add to Notebook | Email to Friend | Print A Brief Guide to the Fireside Poets   We watched the first red blaze appear, Heard the sharp crackle, caught the gleam On whitewashed wall and sagging beam, Until the old, rude-furnished room Burst, flower-like, into rosy bloom; While radiant with a mimic flame Outside the sparkling drift became, And through the bare-boughed lilac-tree Our own warm hearth seemed blazing free. —from Snow-bound, John Greenleaf Whittier 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. Today their verse may seem more Victorian in sensibility than romantic, perhaps overly sentimental or moralizing in tone, but as a group they are notable for their scholarship, political sensibilities, and the resilience of their lines and themes. (Most schoolchildren can recite a line or two from "Paul Revere's Ride" or The Song of Hiawatha.) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and William Cullen Bryant are the poets most commonly grouped together under this heading. 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 are most remembered for their longer narrative poems (Longfellow's Evangeline and Hiawatha, Whittier's Snow-bound) that frequently used American legends and scenes of American home life and contemporary politics (as in Holmes's "Old Ironsides" and Lowell's anti-slavery poems) as their subject matter. At the peak of his career, Longfellow's popularity rivaled Tennyson's in England as well as in America, and he was a noted translator and scholar in several languages--in fact, he was the first American poet to be honored with a bust in Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner. Hiawatha itself draws not only on Native American languages for its rhythmic underpinning, but also echoes the Kalevala, a Finnish epic. Lowell and Whittier, both outspoken liberals and abolitionists, were known for their journalism and work with the fledgling Atlantic Monthly. 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. Larger Type | Home | Help | Contact Us | Privacy Policy Copyright © 1997 - 2014 by Academy of American Poets.