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

 * Absurdism
 * Aestheticism
 * Augustan poetry

B

 * Beat Generation
 * Black Arts Movement
 * Black Mountain poets

C

 * Cairo poets
 * Castalian Band
 * Cavalier poets
 * Chhayavaad
 * Confederation Poets
 * Confessional poetry
 * Los Contemporeneos
 * Cyclic Poets

D

 * Dadaism
 * Deep image
 * Della Cruscans
 * Dymock poets

F

 * Fireside Poets
 * Fugitives (poets)

G

 * Generation of '27
 * Georgian poets
 * Goliard
 * Graveyard poets
 * The Group (literature)

H

 * Harlem Renaissance
 * Harvard Aesthetes
 * Hungry Generation

I

 * Imagism

J

 * Jazz poetry

L

 * Lake Poets
 * Language Poets

M

 * Martian poetry
 * Misty Poets
 * Montreal Group
 * The Movement

N

 * Negritude
 * New Apocalyptics
 * New Formalism
 * New York School

O

 * Objectivist poetry
 * Others (art group)

P

 * Parnassians
 * Pastoralism
 * La Pleiade
 * Poetic transrealism
 * The poets of Elan

R

 * Rhymers' Club
 * Rochester Poets
 * Romantic poetry

S

 * San Francisco Renaissance
 * Scottish Renaissance
 * Sicilian School
 * Poetry Slam
 * Sons of Ben
 * Southern Agrarians
 * Spasmodic poets
 * Spectrism
 * Surrealism
 * Symbolism
 * The Song Fishermen

U

 * Uranian poetry