Literary Circles
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chocolate1218 on February 8, 2011
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english literature, poetry, authors, literary circles, literary periods
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Metaphysical poets | John Donne (the founder), Herbert, Crashaw, H. Vaughan, Marvell..., Occured in the late 17th century; these poets explained the nature of being and the world Topics included property, space, time, existence... |
| The Club/Literary Club | formed by Dr. Johnson at the suggestion of Joshua Reynolds in the winter of 1763-4; included Goldsmith and Burke, as well as Percy, Garrick, Boswell, C.J. Fox |
| First Romantic Movement | Examples include Wordsworth, Coleridge, Burns, and Blake; later was Gray and Cowper, who showed pre-Romantic tendencies |
| Gothic novelists | Horace, Walpole, Monk Lewis |
| Second Romantic Movement | Byron, Shelley, and Keats; |
| Oxford Movement | also called, "The Tractarian Movement"; a movement during the late 1830s and early 1840s within the church of England that affirmed patterns of worship based on thought to have existed in the ancient Church; John Henry Newman, R.H. Froude, and others... "Tracts for the Times" |
| Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood | a group of artists, poets, and critics; characterized by fidelity to nature, moral seriousness; the movement saw itself as a revolt against the ugliness of modern life and dress; members included John Everett Millais, D.G. Rossetti, W. Holman, Hunt, and others; the group later recruited William Morris and Walter Horatio Pater; the movement's champion was John Ruskin |
| Cavalier Poets | English poets of the 17th century, who came from the classes that supported King Charles I during the English Civil War. Much of their poetry is light in style, and generally secular in subject. Robert Herrick, Richard Lovelace, Ben Jonson |
| Commonwealth Poets | John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Abraham Cowley, Edmund Waller |
| Victorian Prose | Thomas Carlyle, John Henry Newman, John Stuart Mill |
| Victorian Critics | Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Pater |
| Victorian Novelists | Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, and Anthony Trollope |
| Opposed to Victorian | Samuel Butler, Lewis Carrol, George Meredith |
| Victorian Poets | Tennyson, Arnold, and Browning |
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