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Group of Writers
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Angry Young Men | A group of British writers in the 1950s and 1960s who demonstrated a particular bitterness in their attacks on outmoded, bourgeois values. |
| Beat Generation | Group highlighted by writers and artist who stressed spontaneity and spirituality instead of apathy and conformity. |
| Black Mountain School | An experimental school in aesthetic education, which included architecture, the graphic arts, and literature. |
| Bluestockings | A term applied to women of pronounced intellectual interests. developed after 1750. Informal groups; focused on encouraging and interest in literature and fostering a recognition of literary genius. |
| Cavalier Lyricists | The followers of Charles I who composed light-hearted poems. Includes Thomas Carew, Richard Lovelace, and Sir John Suckling. |
| Ciceronians | A group of Latin stylists in the Renaissance who would not use any word that could not be found in Cicero's writings. |
| Cockney School | Applied by Blackwood Magazine to a group of 19th century writers including Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, and Keats, because of their alleged poor taste in diction and rhyme. The offending rhymes include name-time and vista-sister only rhyme to cockney ear. |
| Decadents | Writers who believed that art was superior to nature and that the finest beauty was that of dying or decaying things. They attacked the moral and social standards of their times. |
| Della Cruscans | Group of poets, founded by Robert Merry, that produced a series of rhetorically ornate and emotional poems of sensibility which may have influenced the young romantics. |
| Fireside Poets | The introduction of free public education at the beginning of the 19th century. |
| Fleshly School | A realistic, sensual school of poets. Accused of immorality in an article entitled "The Fleshly School of Poetry" in The Contemporary Review in October 1871. |
| Geneva School | Critics who began to see literary work as a series of existential expressions of the author's conscience. Major writers: Georges Poulet, Marcel Raymond, and J. Hillis Miller. |
| Hartford Wits | A group of Connecticut writers, active around the period of the American Revolution. |
| Imagists | The name applies to a group of poets active in England and America between 1909-1918. They believed in directness, economy of language, avoidance of generalities, and a hierarchy of precise phrasing over adherence to poetic meter. |
| Inkhornists | A group of Renaissance period writers who introduced heavy Latin and Greek words into the English vocabulary. |
| Kailyard School | A group of Scottish writers whose work dealt idealistically with village life in Scotland. |
| Knickerbocker | The group of 19th century writers from New York who finally gained international acclaim for their literary works. |
| Lake School | Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Southey - three poets living in the Lake District of northwest England at the beginning of the nineteenth century. |
| Language Poets | A term applied around 1980 to a group of American poets whose work shows radical suspicion, skepticism, or cynicism about the efficacy of written language to express anything much beyond its own intramural apparatus. |
| Late Victorian Age | (1870-1901) The period between 1870 and the death of Queen Victoria saw the rise of realism, realistic novels, and critical questions. |
| Lollards | The name for the followers of John Wycliffe, an aid in translating the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English, who denounced the Church for their riches, asked that war be denounced as unchristian, and expressed disbelief in doctrines. |
| Lost Generation | A group of American writers that rebelled against America's lack of cosmopolitan culture in the early 20th century. Many moved to cultural centers such as London in Paris in search for literary freedom. |
| Martian School | Craig Raines second book of poems. He labeled a school of British poets born in the 1940s-poets who struggle to see the world afresh, as might a visitor from Mars. |
| Muckrakers | A group of American writers who between 1902-1911 worked to expose the dishonest methods in big business, and in city, state, and national government. |
| New York School | A group of American poets who flourished between 1950 and 1970, distinguished by urbanity, wit, learning, spontaneity, and exuberance. |
| Parnassians | A group 19th century French poets. Influenced by Art for Art's Sake. Reacted against romanticism. They wrote impersonal poetry with great objective clarity and precision of detail. They had a strong preoccupation with form and reintroduced French forms. |
| Satanic School | Used by Southey in Vision of Judgement to designate the group of Byron, Shelley, and Hunt whose irregular lives and radical ideas suggested the term. |
| Saturday Club | Used by Southey in Vision of Judgement to designate the group of Byron, Shelley, and Hunt whose irregular lives and radical ideas suggested the term. |
| School of Night | With some nobility. It was lead by Sir Walter Ralegh. Its members include Christopher Marlowe, George Chapman, and Thomas Harriot. They studied natural sciences, philosophy, and religion and were suspected of being atheists. |
| Scriblerus Club | A club organized in London in 1714 by Jonathan Swift to satirize literary incompetence. It expressed its opinions of the false taste of the age, particularly of learning, through satiric fragment. |
| Silver-Fork School | A group of 19th century English novelists who emphasized gentility and etiquette. Members included Frances Trollope, Theodore Hook, Lady Blessington, Lady Caroline Lamb, and Benjamin Disraeli. |
| Spasmodic School | Applied by W. E. Aytoun in 1854 to a group of contemporary English poets. They were influenced by Shelley and Byron. Their verse reflected discontent and unrest, and their style was marked by jerkiness and strained emphasis. |
| Transcendental Club (aka The Symposium or Hedge Club) | Informal organization of leading transcendentalists living in and around Boston. Their interests included developments in theology, philosophy, and literature. The movement was associated with the growth of Unitarian spirit in New England. |
| Tribe of Ben | A nickname for young poets and dramatists of the seventeenth century who acknowledged Ben Jonson as their master. |
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