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Important Schools of Poetry in English Literature.


  1. 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).
  2. 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.            
  3. 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.
  4. 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. 
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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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