Who were the fireside poets and why were they called fireside poets?

They wee a group of 19th century American Poets from New England that consisted of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell and Oliver WenDELL Holmes Sr. They were the first American poets able to rival those of England at home and abroad. The term Fireside Poets meant that they adhered to standard forms, regular meter, and rhymed stanzas, making them suitable for memorization and recitation.