| 单词 | cockney school of poetry |
| 释义 | > as lemmasCockney School of Poetry Cockney school n. originally depreciative (now historical) a group of 19th-century writers, including Leigh Hunt, John Keats, and William Hazlitt, belonging to a literary circle based in London; also more fully Cockney School of Poetry.Coined (on the model of Lake school n. at lake n.4 Compounds 2b) as a derisive term for the group in the essay cited in quot. 1817, and used extensively in the following years in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine and elsewhere in hostile articles about these writers, particularly Hunt. Generally, such attacks are based on accusations of vulgarity of expression and diction, lack of gentility, taste, and good education, and low morality (see for example quot. 1817 at sense B. 2b), and also on a distaste for the group's association with reformist politics. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] > specific schools of writers Cockney school1817 sensitivism1891 Félibrige1902 Bloomsbury1910 Squirearchy1930 niggerati1932 New Wave1968 Oulipo1975 1817 J. G. Lockhart in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 38 On the Cockney School of Poetry... If I may be permitted to have the honour of christening it, it may henceforth be referred to by the designation of The Cockney School. 1882 M. Oliphant Lit. Hist. Eng. II. 225 At a later period Hazlitt joined this literary circle, then Leigh Hunt; and it began to be assailed as the ‘Cockney School’. 1940 Brit. Mus. Q. 14 57 The adherents of the Lake School of poets and those of the Cockney School. 2012 Stud. Romanticism 51 377 The notorious series of attacks on the Cockney School of Poetry. < as lemmas |
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