Literary Movements and Groups

Section 1: RENAISSANCE PERIOD

1. Scottish Chaucerians

2. University Wits

3. Comedy of Humors

4. Masque

5. Sons of Ben

6. Metaphysical Poets

7. Cavalier Poets

Section 2: ENLIGHTENMENT PERIOD

1. Commedia Dell'Arte

2. Kit Kat Club

3. Scriblerus Club

4. Graveyard Poets

Section 3: ROMANTIC PERIOD

1. Lake Poets

2. Satanic School of Poetry

3. Cockney School

4. Dark Romantics

5. Transcendentalism

Section 4: VICTORIAN PERIOD

1. Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

2. Aestheticism

3. Fireside Poets

Oxford Movement

5. Realism

6. Naturalism

7. Impressionism

8. Symbolism

9. Imagism

10. Surrealism

11. Cambridge Apostles

Section 5: MODERN PERIOD

1. Rhymer's Club

2. Irish Dramatic Movement

3. Auden Group

4. Georgian Poets

5. Harlem Renaissance

6. War Poets

7. Lost Generation

8. Bloomsbury Group

9. Black Mountain Poets

10. New Apocalyptics

11. Southern Agrarians

12. Jindyworobak Movement

Section 6: POST MODERN PERIOD

1. Black Arts Movement

2. Existentialism

3. Agitprop

4. Theatre of Cruelty

5. Epic Theatre

6. Angry Young Man

7. Kitchen Sink Drama

8. Theatre of the Absurd

9. Theatre of the Oppressed

10. Beat Generation

11. Confessional Poetry

12. Movement Poets