Fireside Poetry Flashcards
1
Q
What did John Timberman Newcomb identify as the key features of Fireside Verse?
A
‘didacticism, sentimentality, rhapsodic tonalities, and studied timelessness’;
‘genteel poetry culture’
2
Q
What does John Timberman Newcomb argue that Fireside Verse caused?
A
‘their genteel politics of value, stubbornly refusing to accept that verse must accept and even enact the changes wrought by modernity, drove American poetry from cultural centrality’
3
Q
What did Henry Wadsworth Longfellow do? Example of Fireside influence from predecessors
A
A blank verse translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy; set of sonnets “Divina Commedia”
