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Symbolist poetry					Symbolism, as a type and movement in poetry, emphasized non-structured "internalized" poetry that, for lack of better words, describe thoughts and feelings in disconnected ways and places logic, formal structure, and descriptive reality in the back...
Romanticism		Art period/movement			Romanticism is a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe, and gained strength during the Industrial Revolution. It was partly a revolt against aristocratic social...
Romanticism		Philosophical Movement
Acmeist poetry					Acmeism, or the Guild of Poets, was a transient poetic school which emerged in 1910 in Russia under the leadership of Nikolai Gumilyov and Sergei Gorodetsky. The term was coined after the Greek word acme, i.e., "the best age of man". The Acmeist...
Imagism					Imagism was a movement in early 20th-century Anglo-American poetry that favored precision of imagery, and clear, sharp language. The Imagists rejected the sentiment and discursiveness typical of much Romantic and Victorian poetry. This was in...
Neo-imagism					Neo-Imagism is a little-known literary movement, concerned purely with poetry. It arose in the early 1990s and its influence, among some writers, is still discernible today.The movement came about partly through a growing interest in minimalist...
Concrete poetry					Concrete poetry, pattern poetry or shape poetry is poetry in which the typographical arrangement of words is as important in conveying the intended effect as the conventional elements of the poem, such as meaning of words, rhythm, rhyme and so on. ...
Futurism		Art period/movement			Futurism was an art movement that originated in Italy at the beginning of the 20th century. Although a nascent Futurism can be seen surfacing throughout the very early years of the twentieth century, the 1907 essay Entwurf einer neuen Ästhetik der...
Objectivist poets					The Objectivist poets were a loose-knit group of second-generation Modernist who emerged in the 1930s. They were mainly American and were influenced by, amongst others, Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. The basic tenets of Objectivist poetics...
New York School					The New York School (synonymous with abstract expressionist painting) was an informal group of American poet, painter, dance, and musician active in the 1950s, 1960s in New York City. The poets, painters, composers, dancers, and musicians often drew...
Augustan poetry					Augustan poetry is the poetry that flourished during the reign of Caesar Augustus as Emperor of Rome, most notably including the works of Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. This poetry was more explicitly political than the poetry that had preceded it, and...
Modernismo					Modernismo is Spanish and Portuguese for modernism, however the term Modernismo also indicates a more specific art movement: *
Modernist poetry			1890	1970	Modernist poetry refers to poetry written between 1890 and 1930 in the tradition of modernist literature; the dates of the term depend upon a number of factors, including the nation of origin, the particular school in question, and the biases of the...
Confessionalism					Confessionalism is a label formally applied to a style of American poetry that emerged in the 1950 and 1960. The label continues to be applied, though usually in a derogatory sense, to poetry about personal experience, particularly when that poetry...
Jazz poetry					Jazz poetry can be defined as poetry that "demonstrates jazz-like rhythm or the feel of improvisation". During the 1920s, several poets began to eschew the conventions of rhythm and style; among these were Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and E. E. Cummings...
Fireside Poets					The Fireside Poets (also known as the Schoolroom or Household Poets) were a group of 19th-century American poet from New England. The group is usually described as comprising Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier...
Russian Futurism					Russian Futurism is the term used to denote a group of Russian poets and artists who adopted the principles of Marinetti's manifesto. Russian futurism may be said to have been born in December 1912, when the St. Petersburg-based group Hylaea ...
Black Arts Movement					The Black Arts Movement or BAM is the artistic branch of the Black Power movement. It was started in Harlem by writer and activist Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoy Jones). Time Magazine describes the Black Arts Movement as the "single most...
Black Mountain poets					The Black Mountain poets, sometimes called projectivist poets, were a group of mid 20th century American avant-garde or postmodern poets centered on Black Mountain College. Although it lasted only twenty-three years (1933-1956) and enrolled fewer...
British Poetry Revival					The British Poetry Revival is the general name given to a loose poetic movement in Britain that took place in the 1960s and 1970s. The Revival was a modernist-inspired reaction to the Movement's more conservative approach to British poetry. If the...
Cavalier poet					Cavalier poets is a broad description of a school of English poet of the 17th century, who came from the classes that supported King Charles I during the English Civil War. They were marked out by their lifestyle and religion from the Puritan on the...
Cairo poets					The British Army presence in Egypt in World War II had as a side-effect the concentration of a group of Cairo poets. There had in fact been a noticeable literary group in Cairo before the war in North Africa broke out, including university academics...
The Group					The Group was an informal group of poets who met in London from the mid 1950s to the mid 1960s. As a poetic movement in Great Britain it is often seen as a being the successor to The Movement. In November 1952 while at Downing College, Cambridge...
New Formalism					New Formalism is a late-twentieth and early twenty-first century movement in American poetry that has promoted a return to metrical and rhyme verse. The term was first used in the article 'The Yuppie Poet' in the May 1985 issue of the AWP...
Harlem Renaissance					The Harlem Renaissance was named after the anthology The New Negro, edited by Alain Locke in 1925. Centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the movement impacted urban centers throughout the United States. Across the cultural spectrum ...
Poetic transrealism					Transrealism in poetry or uchronism, according to this poetic movement's father, the Chilean poet Sergio Badilla Castillo, is created upon a transposition of time, which means that temporary scenes merge, in the textual corpus, and in this way...
Descriptive poetry					Descriptive poetry is the name given to a class of literature that may be defined as belonging mainly to the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries in Europe. From the earliest times, all poetry which was not subjectively lyrical was apt to indulge in...
Country house poems					A genre popular in early 17th century England, in which the poet compliments a wealthy patron or a friend through a description of his country house. It may be regarded as a sub-set of the Topographical poem. The model for the country house poem is...
Language poets					The Language poets (or L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets, after the magazine that bears that name) are an avant garde group or tendency in United States poetry that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In developing their poetics, members of the Language...
Beat generation					The Beat Generation is a term used to describe both a group of American writers who came to prominence in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the cultural phenomena that they wrote about and inspired (later sometimes called "beatniks"). The major...
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