Fireside poets
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The fireside poets – also known as the schoolroom or household poets – were a group of 19th-century American poets associated with New England. These poets were very popular among readers and critics
1913 image featuring portraits representing four of the fireside poets: Longfellow, Holmes, Lowell, and Whittier
The addition of Sidney Lanier, Walt Whitman, and Edgar Allan Poe to the frontispiece of Edmund Clarence Stedman's An American Anthology in 1900 indicated the beginning of a canonical shift away from the fireside poets.
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William Cullen Bryant
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William Cullen Bryant was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New-York Evening Post. Born in Massachusetts, he started his career as a lawyer but showed an interest in p
Fireside poets
…their era until their decline in popularity at the beginning of the 20th century. The group is typically thought to include Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., who were the first American poets whose popularity rivaled that of British…
Cabinet card of Bryant by José Maria Mora, c. 1876
Engraving of Bryant, c. 1843
An 1867 portrait of Hiram Powers and Bryant, now housed at the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C.
Kindred Spirits, an 1849 portrait by Asher Durand, depicting Bryant with Thomas Cole