Fireside Poets

As Fireside Poets or Household Poets ( "chimney poet " or " household poet " ) are referred to in the American literary history, a number of New England poets of the 19th century.

In general, the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell and Oliver Wendell Holmes are counted among the Fireside Poets. Have in common is that they wrote the Victorian taste corresponding solid -conventional poetry. Her poetry was exceptionally " socially acceptable " because it was the broad reading public easily accessible and politically and culturally mediated one - compliant affirmative, partly sentimental worldview. So it was suitable in particular for use in schools - to this day, many American school children have about Longfellow's Paul Revere 's Ride memorize.

The Fireside Poets, especially Longfellow, were so until the 20th century as the culmination of American poetry and also enjoyed some popularity in the UK. With the onset of Modernism, however, continued after 1900 a canon revision, which drew attention to artistic innovation and cultural subversion potential. In particular, as a result of literary critical works of George Santayana and Van Wyck Brooks were the Fireside Poets in favor of other authors of American Romanticism, especially Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe, delegated in the second series of American literary.