The Fireside Poets (also known as the Schoolroom or Household Poets) were a group of 19th-century American poets from New England.
Famous quotes containing the words fireside and/or poets:
“And yet what good were yesterday’s devotions?
I affirm and then at midnight the great cat
Leaps quickly from the fireside and is gone.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Lately our poets loiter’d in green lanes,
Content to catch the ballads of the plains;”
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)