Showing posts with label Important Schools of Poetry in English Literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Important Schools of Poetry in English Literature. Show all posts
Important Schools of Poetry in English Literature.
- Cavalier School of Poetry(1642-1651): The poets are best known as the Cavalier Poets, are Richard Lovelace(1618-1657), John Suckling, Thomas Carew(1598-1639), and Robert Herrick(1591-1674).
- The Cockney School of Poetry: ★According to Oxford dictionery 'Cockney' means ' a person from the East End of London' or 'the dialect or accent used in this area'. ★ The reviewer, probably, John Gibson Lockhart, who nourished with the help of Wilson and Hogg. ★P.B. Shelley and William Hazlitt remarked as 'Cockney' writers.
- The Fleshly School of Poetry: ★ The Fleshly School of Poetry is a title of a famous review written by Robert Williams Buchanan under the pseudonym Robert Maitland in The Contemporary Review for October, 1871.
- The Graveyard School of Poetry: ★ The Graveyard School was a movement pioneered by Edward Young and Robert Blair. Other poets are Thomas Gray and Thomas Warton.
- The Kailyard School of poetry: ★ Kailyard is a Scottish word, which suggest the realistic simplicity of village life,- means a cabbage-patch or kitchen garden, such as is commonly attached to a small cottage. ★ The best known writer of this group was Sir James M. Barrie. Another writer was Samuel R. Crockett.
- The Lake School of Poetry: ★ This term 'Lake School' was first used in the 'Edinburgh Review' August, 1817. ★ The chief Lake Poets were William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey.
- The Metaphysical School of poetry: ★ The term "Metaphysical" was first coined by William Drummond of Hawthronder in his letter to Arthur Johnston in 1630. ★ It was first applied by Dr. Samuel Johnson in his "Lives of the Poets". ★ The real inventor of this term is taken to be John Dryden, the Father of English Criticism, in his Discourse of English Poetry. ★ The best known writers were- John Donne, Abraham Cowley, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Henry Vaughan, John Cleveland and Thomas Traherne.
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