List of poetry groups and movements

Poetry groups and movements or schools may be self-identified by the poets that form them or defined by critics who see unifying characteristics of a body of work by more than one poet. To be a 'school' a group of poets must share a common style or a common ethos. A commonality of form is not in itself sufficient to define a school; for example, Edward Lear, George du Maurier and Ogden Nash do not form a school simply because they all wrote limericks.

There are many different 'schools' of poetry. The following is an alphabetical list of poetry groups and movements.

A

 * Aestheticism
 * Alexandrian Pleiad, Greek, 3rd BC
 * Auden Group, English, 20th
 * Augustan poetry, English, 18th

B

 * Bardic poetry, Irish, 10th-15th
 * Beat Generation, American, 20th
 * Black Arts Movement, American, 20th
 * Black Mountain poets, American, 20th

C

 * Cairo poets, English, 20th
 * Castalian Band, Scottish, 16th
 * Cavalier poets, English, 17th
 * Chhayavaad
 * Confederation Poets, Canadian, 19th
 * Confessional poetry
 * Los Contemporeneos
 * Cyclic Poets

D

 * Dadaism, European, 20th
 * Deep image, American, 20th
 * Della Cruscans, English / Italian, 18th
 * Dymock poets, English, 20th

F

 * Fireside Poets, American, 19th
 * Fugitives (poets), American, 20th
 * Futurism (literature), European, 20th

G

 * Garip, Turkish, 20th
 * Generation of '27, Spanish, 20th
 * Georgian poets, English, 20th
 * Goliards, Latin, 12th, 13th
 * Graveyard poets, English, 18th-19th
 * The Group (literature), English, 20th

H

 * Harlem Renaissance, American, 20th
 * Harvard Aesthetes, American, 20th
 * Hungry Generation, Bengali, 20th

I

 * Imagism, English, 20th
 * Informationist poetry, Scottish, 20th

J

 * Jazz poetry, American, 20th

L

 * Lake Poets, English, 19th
 * Language poets, American, 20th
 * Liverpool poets, English, 20th

M

 * Martian poetry, English, 20th
 * Misty Poets, Chinese, 20th
 * Montreal Group, Canadian, 20th
 * The Movement, English, 20th

N

 * Negritude, French, 20th
 * New Apocalyptics, British, 20th
 * New Formalism, American, 20th
 * New York School, American, 20th

O

 * Objectivist poets, American, 20th
 * Others (art group), American, 20th

P

 * Parnassians (France, 19th)
 * Pastoralism
 * La Pleiade
 * Poetic transrealism
 * The poets of Elan (Ecuador, 20th)

R

 * Rhymers' Club
 * Rochester Poets
 * Romantic poetry

S

 * San Francisco Renaissance (United States, 20th)
 * Scottish Renaissance
 * Sicilian School (Sicily, 13th)
 * Poetry Slam
 * Sons of Ben
 * Southern Agrarians
 * Spasmodic poets
 * Spectrism
 * Surrealism
 * Symbolism
 * The Song Fishermen (Canada, 20th)

U

 * Uranian poetry, English, 19th

V

 * Vorticism, English, 20th

W

 * Weaver Poets, Ulster Scots, 19th
 * Wellington Group, New Zealand, 20th