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Acmeism: 20th-century Russian school of poetry that rejected the vagueness and emotionality of Symbolism in favor of Imagist clarity and texture.
Augustan Age: The first half of the 18th century, during which English poets such as emulated Virgil, Ovid, and Horace (the great Latin poets of the reign of the Emperor Augustus (27 BCE to 14 CE)).0
Beat poets: A national group of poets who emerged from San Francisco’s literary counterculture in the 1950s.
Black Arts Movement: A cultural movement conceived of and promoted by Amiri Baraka in the mid-1960s.
Black Mountain poets: a group of progressive poets who, in the 1940s and 1950s, were associated with the experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina.
Canon: A list of authors or works considered to be central to the identity of a given literary tradition or culture.
Commedia dell’arte: Italian term for “theater of professional artists.” A theater form that emerged in northern Italy in the 15th century and spread throughout Europe.
Classicism: The principles and ideals of beauty that are characteristic of Greek and Roman art, architecture, and literature.
Cockney School of poets: A dismissive name for London-based Romantic poets such as John Keats, Leigh Hunt, and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Confessional poetry: Vividly self-revelatory verse associated with a number of American poets writing in the 1950s and 1960s.
Dada: A movement that began in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1916 at the Cabaret Voltaire. Employs the use of a nonsense word to embody a simultaneously playful and nihilistic spirit.
Dark Room Collective: An artists group formed in 1987 by Boston poets Thomas Sayers Ellis and Sharan Strange and musician Janice Lowe after they attended the funeral of James Baldwin.
Ecopoetics: Movement rose out of the late 20th-century awareness of ecology and concerns over environmental disaster.
Ethnopoetics: Empathized drawing connections between human activity (poems) and the environment that produces it.
Elliptical poets: Poets who try to manifest a person who speaks the poem and reflects the poet while using technology.
Elizabethan Age: The period coinciding with the reign of England’s Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603), considered to be the literary height of the English Renaissance.
Formalism: Viewed literature as a distinct and separate entity, unconnected to historical or social causes or effects.
Fugitives: A group of Southern poets associated with the Fugitive, a literary magazine produced in the early 1920s.
Futurism: An avant-garde aesthetic movement that arose in Italy and Russia in the early 20th century. Its proponents called for a rejection of past forms of expression, and the embrace of industry and new technology.
Georgianism: Respect for formalism as well as bucolic and romantic subject matter.
Harlem Renaissance: A period of musical, literary, and cultural proliferation that began in New York’s African-American community during the 1920s and early 1930s.
Imagism: An early 20th-century poetic movement that relied on the resonance of concrete images drawn in precise, colloquial language rather than traditional poetic diction and meter.
Language poetry: Avant garde poetry movement that emerged in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s as a response to mainstream American poetry.
Marxist criticism: Attempts to show the relationship between literature and the social (mainly economic) conditions under which it was produced.
Metaphysical poets: A group of 17th-century poets whose works are marked by philosophical exploration, colloquial diction, ingenious conceits, irony, and metrically flexible lines.
Modernism: A broadly defined multinational cultural movement (or series of movements) that took hold in the late 19th century and reached its most radical peak on the eve of World War I.
Négritude: The movement was a reaction against the European colonization of Africa and its legacy of cultural racism.
New American Poets: The group of poets included in Donald Allen’s influential 1960 anthology of the same name.
New Criticism: Name given to a style of criticism advocated by a group of academics writing in the first half of the 20th century. Style considered texts as autonomous and “closed,” meaning that everything that is needed to understand a work is present within it.
New Formalism: A late 20th- and early 21st-century movement that championed a return to rhyme and meter in poetry.
New Historicism: Reopened the interpretation of literature to the social, political, and historical milieu that produced it. Style suggests literature is not the record of a single mind, but the end product of a particular cultural moment.
New York School: A group of poets aligned with the New York School of painting in the 1950s and ’60s.
Objectivism: Looking at a poem with a special eye to its structural aspects and how it has been constructed.
OuLiPo: An acronym for Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle (Workshop for Potential Literature), a group of writers and mathematicians formed in France in 1960 by poet Raymond Queneau and mathematician François Le Lionnais.
Postmodernism: A controversial concept. It tends to refer to an intellectual, artistic, or cultural outlook or practice that is suspicious of hierarchy and objective knowledge and embraces complexity, contradiction, ambiguity, and diversity.
Poststructuralism: Emphasized the instability of meaning.
Romanticism: The principles and ideals of the Romantic movement in literature and the arts during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Structuralism: A movement of thought in the humanities, widespread in anthropology, linguistics, and literary theory, and influential in the 1950s and ’60s.
Surrealism: An artistic philosophy that took hold in 1920s Paris and spread throughout the world in the decades that followed. Style stresses the supremacy of the “disinterested play of thought” and the “omnipotence of dreams” rather than reason and logic.
Symbolist Movement: A group of late 19th-century French writers who favored dreams, visions, and the associative powers of the imagination in their poetry.
Transcendentalism: A strain of Romanticism that took root among writers in mid-19th-century New England. Principles state that the natural and material world exists to reveal universal meaning to the individual soul via one’s subjective experiences.
Victorian: Poetry written in England during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901). Following Romanticism, Victorian poets continued many of the previous era’s main themes, such as religious skepticism and valorization of the artist as genius.
Augustan Age: The first half of the 18th century, during which English poets such as emulated Virgil, Ovid, and Horace (the great Latin poets of the reign of the Emperor Augustus (27 BCE to 14 CE)).0
Beat poets: A national group of poets who emerged from San Francisco’s literary counterculture in the 1950s.
Black Arts Movement: A cultural movement conceived of and promoted by Amiri Baraka in the mid-1960s.
Black Mountain poets: a group of progressive poets who, in the 1940s and 1950s, were associated with the experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina.
Canon: A list of authors or works considered to be central to the identity of a given literary tradition or culture.
Commedia dell’arte: Italian term for “theater of professional artists.” A theater form that emerged in northern Italy in the 15th century and spread throughout Europe.
Classicism: The principles and ideals of beauty that are characteristic of Greek and Roman art, architecture, and literature.
Cockney School of poets: A dismissive name for London-based Romantic poets such as John Keats, Leigh Hunt, and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Confessional poetry: Vividly self-revelatory verse associated with a number of American poets writing in the 1950s and 1960s.
Dada: A movement that began in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1916 at the Cabaret Voltaire. Employs the use of a nonsense word to embody a simultaneously playful and nihilistic spirit.
Dark Room Collective: An artists group formed in 1987 by Boston poets Thomas Sayers Ellis and Sharan Strange and musician Janice Lowe after they attended the funeral of James Baldwin.
Ecopoetics: Movement rose out of the late 20th-century awareness of ecology and concerns over environmental disaster.
Ethnopoetics: Empathized drawing connections between human activity (poems) and the environment that produces it.
Elliptical poets: Poets who try to manifest a person who speaks the poem and reflects the poet while using technology.
Elizabethan Age: The period coinciding with the reign of England’s Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603), considered to be the literary height of the English Renaissance.
Formalism: Viewed literature as a distinct and separate entity, unconnected to historical or social causes or effects.
Fugitives: A group of Southern poets associated with the Fugitive, a literary magazine produced in the early 1920s.
Futurism: An avant-garde aesthetic movement that arose in Italy and Russia in the early 20th century. Its proponents called for a rejection of past forms of expression, and the embrace of industry and new technology.
Georgianism: Respect for formalism as well as bucolic and romantic subject matter.
Harlem Renaissance: A period of musical, literary, and cultural proliferation that began in New York’s African-American community during the 1920s and early 1930s.
Imagism: An early 20th-century poetic movement that relied on the resonance of concrete images drawn in precise, colloquial language rather than traditional poetic diction and meter.
Language poetry: Avant garde poetry movement that emerged in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s as a response to mainstream American poetry.
Marxist criticism: Attempts to show the relationship between literature and the social (mainly economic) conditions under which it was produced.
Metaphysical poets: A group of 17th-century poets whose works are marked by philosophical exploration, colloquial diction, ingenious conceits, irony, and metrically flexible lines.
Modernism: A broadly defined multinational cultural movement (or series of movements) that took hold in the late 19th century and reached its most radical peak on the eve of World War I.
Négritude: The movement was a reaction against the European colonization of Africa and its legacy of cultural racism.
New American Poets: The group of poets included in Donald Allen’s influential 1960 anthology of the same name.
New Criticism: Name given to a style of criticism advocated by a group of academics writing in the first half of the 20th century. Style considered texts as autonomous and “closed,” meaning that everything that is needed to understand a work is present within it.
New Formalism: A late 20th- and early 21st-century movement that championed a return to rhyme and meter in poetry.
New Historicism: Reopened the interpretation of literature to the social, political, and historical milieu that produced it. Style suggests literature is not the record of a single mind, but the end product of a particular cultural moment.
New York School: A group of poets aligned with the New York School of painting in the 1950s and ’60s.
Objectivism: Looking at a poem with a special eye to its structural aspects and how it has been constructed.
OuLiPo: An acronym for Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle (Workshop for Potential Literature), a group of writers and mathematicians formed in France in 1960 by poet Raymond Queneau and mathematician François Le Lionnais.
Postmodernism: A controversial concept. It tends to refer to an intellectual, artistic, or cultural outlook or practice that is suspicious of hierarchy and objective knowledge and embraces complexity, contradiction, ambiguity, and diversity.
Poststructuralism: Emphasized the instability of meaning.
Romanticism: The principles and ideals of the Romantic movement in literature and the arts during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Structuralism: A movement of thought in the humanities, widespread in anthropology, linguistics, and literary theory, and influential in the 1950s and ’60s.
Surrealism: An artistic philosophy that took hold in 1920s Paris and spread throughout the world in the decades that followed. Style stresses the supremacy of the “disinterested play of thought” and the “omnipotence of dreams” rather than reason and logic.
Symbolist Movement: A group of late 19th-century French writers who favored dreams, visions, and the associative powers of the imagination in their poetry.
Transcendentalism: A strain of Romanticism that took root among writers in mid-19th-century New England. Principles state that the natural and material world exists to reveal universal meaning to the individual soul via one’s subjective experiences.
Victorian: Poetry written in England during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901). Following Romanticism, Victorian poets continued many of the previous era’s main themes, such as religious skepticism and valorization of the artist as genius.
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