The Fireside Poets (also known as the Schoolroom or Household Poets) were a group of 19th-century American poets from New England.
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“Before I finally went into winter quarters in November, I used to resort to the north- east side of Walden, which the sun, reflected from the pitch pine woods and the stony shore, made the fireside of the pond; it is so much pleasanter and wholesomer to be warmed by the sun while you can be, than by an artificial fire. I thus warmed myself by the still glowing embers which the summer, like a departed hunter, had left.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“I said, the poets are there
I hear them singing and lying
around their round table
and around me still.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)