Cockney School of poetry

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The Cockney School of poetry was an early 19th-century group of London-based Romantic writers, including figures like Leigh Hunt and John Keats, known for their colloquial style, urban themes, and opposition to conservative literary norms.

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Cockney School of poetry canonical 1

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instanceOf Romantic movement subgroup ⓘ
group of poets ⓘ
literary movement ⓘ
associatedPublication Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine ⓘ
The Examiner ⓘ
associatedWith liberal reformist politics ⓘ
country United Kingdom ⓘ
criticizedBy Blackwood's Magazine ⓘ
John Gibson Lockhart ⓘ
The Quarterly Review ⓘ
genre literary criticism ⓘ
poetry ⓘ
hasCharacteristic association with liberal journalism ⓘ
association with radical politics ⓘ
emphasis on contemporary urban life ⓘ
hostility from Tory critics ⓘ
middle‑class and artisan perspectives ⓘ
use of everyday speech ⓘ
hasMember Barry Cornwall ⓘ
Benjamin Haydon ⓘ
Charles Lamb ⓘ
Horace Smith ⓘ
James Henry Leigh Hunt ⓘ
linked to: Leigh Hunt

John Hamilton Reynolds ⓘ
John Keats ⓘ
Leigh Hunt ⓘ
Mary Shelley ⓘ
Percy Bysshe Shelley ⓘ
Thomas Noon Talfourd ⓘ
William Hazlitt ⓘ
influenced later Victorian poets ⓘ
urban working‑class literature ⓘ
influencedBy Romanticism ⓘ
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ⓘ
William Wordsworth ⓘ
language English ⓘ
literaryStyle colloquial language ⓘ
experimental versification ⓘ
informal diction ⓘ
urban themes ⓘ
location London ⓘ
linked to: London, England
nameOrigin pejorative label coined by conservative reviewers ⓘ
notableWork Endymion ⓘ
Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and Other Poems ⓘ
The Examiner essays ⓘ
The Story of Rimini ⓘ
opposedTo Augustan poetic conventions ⓘ
conservative literary norms ⓘ
partOf English Romanticism ⓘ
linked to: Romanticism
timePeriod early 19th century ⓘ

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Leigh Hunt → associatedWith → Cockney School of poetry ⓘ