Part 6: Schools and Orgs.

Scriblerus Club

The group of writers organized in 1714 by Jonathan Swift to satirize both literary incompetence and the "false taste of the age" is known as the

Lake School

The name that the Edinburgh Review gave to the early nineteenth-century poets Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey, among others, living and writing in Cumbria and Lancashire is

Kailyard School

The group of late nineteenth-century Scottish writers whose work deals idealistically with village life in Scotland and in which dialect is an important element is

University Wits

The name for certain young scholars, including Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd, who came to London in the late 1580s, undertook careers as professional writers, and played an important part in the development of great literature is

Bluestockings

The term applied to women of pronounced intellectual interests and finding popularity after 1750 as a result of its application to a London group of women of literary and intellectual tastes who held intellectual assemblies or conversations with literary and ingenious men is

Graveyard School

The group of eighteenth-century English poets who wrote poems on death and immortality that attempt to establish an atmosphere of pleasing gloom in order to call up the horrors of death through the imagery of the charnel house and similar places is the

Silver-Fork School

The name applied in derision to group of nineteenth-century English novelists who emphasize gentility and etiquette in their novels is

Bloomsbury Group

The gathering of writers and thinkers, many of whom lived in a residential district near central London after which the group takes its name, counting among its membership Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, E. M. Forster, and John Maynard Keynes, among others, is the

Inkhornists

The group of Renaissance writers who favored the introduction of heavy Latin and Greek words into the standard English vocabulary is known as the

Cavlier lyricists

The followers of England's Charles I, including Sir John Suckling, Thomas Carew, and Richard Lovelace, who composed light-hearted poems thematically concerned with love, war, chivalry, and loyalty to the king, are known collectively as (the)

School of Donne

A name for the seventeenth-century metaphysical poets who revolted against the conventions of Elizabethan love poetry is

Cockney School

The derogatory title applied by Blackwood's Magazine to a group of nineteenth-century British writers including William Hazlitt and John Keats because of their alleged poor taste in diction and rhyme is the Early 1800s

Spasmodic School

The group of mid-nineteenth-century British poets whose verse reflects contemporary discontent and unrest and whose style is marked by jerkiness and strained emphasis is the

Satanic School

The name used by the nineteenth-century long term British poet laureate Robert Southey to designate the members of the literary group made up of Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Leigh Hunt, and others, whose irregular lives and radical ideas, defiantly flaunted in their writings suggested the name, is

Martian School

The school of British poets, including its "founder" Craig Raine, born during the 1940s who struggled to see the world afresh, as might a visitor who has traveled from afar, is known as the

Hartford Wits

The group of eighteenth-century Connecticut writers that included Joel Barlow, Timothy Dwight, and John Trumbull is known as

or

Not one of the several important twentieth-century literary groups or movements in the United States is (the)

Knickerbocker Group

The early nineteenth-century New York literary society that includes Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and William Cullen Bryant, and which was based more on geography and chance rather than on close organization, is the

Fireside Poets

The early nineteenth-century New England literary group that includes William Cullen Bryant and John Greenleaf Whittier, named for an image that suggests warmth and domesticity as well as their northern environment, is the

Or

The group of people who fought for free public education at the beginning of the nineteenth century produced by a generation of literates who needed entertainment and education

Saturday Club

The group of literary and scientific people in the Cambridge and Boston area in the mid-nineteenth century who came together for social intercourse and good conversation, at irregular intervals, is

Muckrakers

The group of American writers, including Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, and Upton Sinclair, who between 1902 and 1911 worked to expose the dishonest methods and unscrupulous motives in big business and in city, state, and national government is

Agrarians

The term applied to the group of twentieth-century writers in the American South who published the little magazine The Fugitive, which championed Southern regionalism, and who founded the New Criticism movement is

Lost Generation

The group of American writers, including Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein, born around 1900, some of whom served in WWI and reacted during the 1920s against certain tendencies of older writers of their time, is known as the

The Fugitives

The group of faculty and students associated with Vanderbilt University that between 1922 and 1925 published a literary magazine of poetry and criticism to which John Crowe Ransom and Robert Penn Warren contributed, is

Beat Generation

The group of American writers of the 1950s and the 1960s in rebellion against what they conceived of as the failures of American culture is the

Language Poets

The term/name applied around 1980 to a group of America poets whose work shows radical suspicion, skepticism, or cynicism about the efficacy of the written form of language to record, register, represent, communicate, or express anything much beyond its own intramural apparatus is

Decadents

The group of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century writers, principally in France but also in England and America, who held that art is superior to nature and that the finest beauty is that of dying and decaying things is the

Geneva School

The group of critics, including Georges Poulet, Albert Béguin, and Marcel Raymond, who see a literary work as a series of existential expressions of the author's individual consciousness is the

Or

The twentieth-century group of literary critics who place the highest value on individual consciousness and in seeing literature as the expression of that consciousness revealed in the act of reading is known as the

Parnassians

NOT a group of authors whose membership, as described in the Handbook, is exclusively British is

Or

The group of nineteenth-century French poets who wrote impersonal poetry in reaction to the prevailing romanticism of the first half of the century and who were influenced by the "art for art's sake" doctrine is the