The Fireside Poets: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Oliver Wendel Holmes

George Washington Carver was born in Diamond Grove, Missouri during the spring of 1864 or 1865. Like many slaves, he was uncertain of his birth date. His mother, Mary, was a slave who belonged to Moses and Susan Carver. As an infant, slave raiders kidnapped his mother. The childless carvers reared George and his older brother, James.

1. The thesis of this essay in the author's words is "Travel is how we put a voice to the Other and step a little beyond our second hand images of the alien." In other words, the author is trying to tell us that travelling is necessary in order for us to not hold prejudices and experience the lifestyle of other cultures.

Huey Long was birthed August 30, 1893, in a little countryside area called Winnfield Louisiana. He was born to the parent of Caledonia and Huey Long Senior. Huey being the seventh child of nine surviving children, was lucky because back then there so few opportunities for large families with a minute amount of money.

The fireside poets were popular at a time when the United States was a new nation, suffering pressure from outside governments as well as growing pains of its own. Historical events such as the War of 1812 threatened to overwhelm the young democracy. At the same time, there was the beginning of the push for westward expansion, and the beginnings of the schism over slavery which would culminate in the Civil War. The fireside poets represented a movement to involve the reader in events of the current day through literature. Most of them had causes about which they were passionate, and they incorporated this into their writing, inviting readers to consider highly charged issues such as abolition, workers’ rights, and immigration on a level that was more personal than had previously been done. Literature has frequently been reflective of the social and political climate in which it is written. The fireside poets were one of the first groups to take their views to a more real-world level, in founding magazines such as the Atlantic Monthly (John Greenleaf Whittier), supporting public projects such as Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (William Cullen Bryant), and even founding a political party and running for Congress (John Greenleaf Whittier). The lead-up to the Civil War was also weighing on the minds of many, which prompted Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to write “Paul Revere’s Ride”, an encouragement to a young country facing a serious conflict. Far from

 made writings of detailed descriptions of the area he went----> he saw Americas as new continents

Whitfield became known at the age of sixteen for his works on African American colonization. He later moved to New York where he picked up the trade of barbering and used this trade as a source of income but still continued to write. He began to publish work in various African American newspapers, one of which was Frederick Douglass’ North Star. He teamed up with other black people who wanted to start their own society and together they encouraged African Americans to colonize else where. Whitfield lectured at several men’s conferences and even took a trip to Central America in hopes of finding a place to establish an African American community. Whitfield’s articles and poetry reflected his militant attitude and were often written with a bitter hostility towards the oppression of black people in America. A perfect example of Whitfield’s resentful attitude towards slavery is one of his most famous poems “America.”

George Washington Carver was born on July 12, 1864, during the Civil War, in Diamond Grove, Missouri. He was one of many children born to Mary and Giles, an enslaved couple owned by Moses Carver. Just a week after his birth, George was kidnapped along with his sister and mother. All of the three were sold in Kentucky, and among them the only who was located was infant George by an agent of Moses Carver, whom then returned George back to Missouri.

He worked on the poem from 1833 to 1850 as an elegy after the death of his dear friend, Arthur Hallam.

John Greenleaf Whittier was born on December 17, 1807 in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Being the son to John Whittier and Abigail Hussey Whittier, two devoted Quakers1, he grew up at their countryside homestead given little formal schooling due to the lack of economic stability as their farm was not very profitable. Whittier was however an eager reader, studying his fathers books on Quakerism until he later on got introduced to poetry by his teacher. On June 8, 1826, Whittier's sister sent his very first poem “The Exile's Departure” to William Lloyd Garrison, an editor to the Newburyport Free Press, who published it even though neither he or Whittier's sister had the permission granted by Whittier himself to do so. The year after, Whittier

After completing his studies, Chopin planned a longer stay abroad to become acquainted with the musical life of Europe and to win fame. Up to then, he had never left Poland, with the exception of two brief stays in Prussia. In July 1829 he made a short

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on February 27, 1807 in Maine. He became a Bowdoin College scholar, Henry studied modern languages in England then returned to Bowdoin to teach them all. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow started poetry in 1820. Henry’s First published poem was "The Battle of Lovell's Pond" wrote at the age of 13. Atlanta rapper Clifford Joseph Harris, Jr. other known as “T.I” was born September 25, 1980. T.I In fact didn’t attend college, he didn’t have the best childhood growing up which caused him to lose focus of his main goals in life. T.I was eventually signed his first major label record deal in the year of 1999. Both Henry Longfellow and Clifford Joseph Harris have lots of similarities and differences.

Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12, 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts to John Thoreau and Cynthia Dunbar. Thoreau studied at Harvard College and took various courses

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on February 17, 1807 in Portland, Maine (Novelist and Prose Writers). He died at the age of 75 in 1882 after suffering from severe stomach pain. He was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts along with his wives. His family was very influential in the region. His father was a prominent lawyer. His maternal grandfather, Peleg Wadsworth, held the position of general in the American Revolutionary War and also served as a member of Congress (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow). Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the most popular poet in America, shaped his poetry to encourage virtues and to live life happily without giving up on any situation that life brings.

Sir Thomas Wyatt was born in the year 1503. The son of Sir Henry Wyatt and Anne Skinner, he went on to attend St. John’s College in Cambridge. He first took a place in the court of King Henry VIII in 1516. In the year 1520 he was married to Elizabeth Brooke at the age of seventeen. His son, of the same name, was born in the year 1521. Wyatt’s marriage to Elizabeth was miserable and the couple is believed to have been “estranged by the second half of the 1520s” (Burrow). Thomas Wyatt and Elizabeth Brooke were separated in 1525 when Wyatt accused his wife of adultery. Much of Sir Thomas Wyatt’s poetry is reflective of his love life. His personal relationships served as inspiration for a notable amount of his work. In his poem “Blame not my

At its beginning, American poetry was extremely influenced by its European roots. This is evidenced by the fact that the first colonists were English, who also brought along their poetic styles and patterns. These European traits set the standard for the genesis of American poetry, which will later we further developed and adapted by Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, who are now considered to be the first great American poets.