ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The terms “Fireside Poets” or “Schoolroom Poets” are used to designate a group of five poets-William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell-who were popular in America in the latter half of the 19th century.

Detailed explanation-2: -Also referred to as the schoolroom or household poets, they wrote in conventional poetic forms to present domestic themes and moral issues. The “fireside” moniker arose out of their popularity, as families would read their books by the fire in their homes.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -Lasting only three issues, the literary magazine The Pioneer was published by Fireside Poet James Russell Lowell, with his friend Robert Carter, in 1843.