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Fireside Poets

Fireside Poets proper noun: a school of 19th century New England poets, often characterized as including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Proper noun

Fireside Poets

  1. (UK, historical) A school of 19th century New England poets, often characterized as including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Questions about Fireside Poets

What does Fireside Poets mean?
Fireside Poets means a school of 19th century New England poets, often characterized as including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
What part of speech is Fireside Poets?
Fireside Poets is a proper noun.

Words near Fireside Poets in the dictionary

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