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 Magazine
surface form: 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 Robert Haydon
surface form: Benjamin Haydon

Charles Lamb
Horace Smith
Leigh Hunt
surface form: James Henry 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, England
surface form: London
nameOrigin pejorative label coined by conservative reviewers
notableWork Endymion
The Eve of St. Agnes
surface form: 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 Romanticism
surface form: English Romanticism
timePeriod early 19th century

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Leigh Hunt associatedWith Cockney School of poetry