Literature

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Romantic fiction written in the 17th century and 18th century, primarily written by women.
Notable authors: Eliza Haywood, Delarivier Manley, Aphra Behn.

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Amatory fiction

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17th century English royalist poets, writing primarily about courtly love, called Sons of Ben (after Ben Jonson).
Notable authors: Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick, Richard Lovelace, Thomas Carew, and Sir John Suckling.

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Cavalier Poets

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17th century English movement using extended conceit, often (though not always) about religion.
Notable authors: John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell.

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Metaphysical poets

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An 18th century literary movement based chiefly on classical ideals, satire and skepticism.
Notable authors: Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift.

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Augustan literature

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18th to 19th century movement emphasizing emotion and imagination, rather than logic and scientific thought. Response to the Enlightenment.
Notable authors: Victor Hugo, Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, John Keats.

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Romanticism

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Fiction in which Romantic ideals are combined with an interest in the supernatural and in violence.
Notable authors: Ann Radcliffe, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Brontë, Robert Louis Stevenson, Stephen King.

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Gothic fiction

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A group of Romantic poets from the English Lake District who wrote about nature and the sublime.
Notable authors: William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

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Lake Poets

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Distinct from European Romanticism, the American form emerged somewhat later, was based more in fiction than in poetry, and incorporated a (sometimes almost suffocating) awareness of history, particularly the darkest aspects of American history.
Notable authors: Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne

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American Romanticism

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19th century, primarily English movement based ostensibly on undoing innovations by the painter Raphael. Many were both painters and poets.
Notable authors: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti.

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Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

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19th century American movement: poetry and philosophy concerned with self-reliance, independence from modern technology.
Notable authors: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau.

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Transcendentalism

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19th century American movement in reaction to Transcendentalism. Finds man inherently sinful and self-destructive and nature a dark, mysterious force.
Notable authors: Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, George Lippard, Emily Dickinson and Ugo Foscolo.

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Dark romanticism

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Late-19th century movement based on a simplification of style and image and an interest in poverty and everyday concerns.
Notable authors: Gustave Flaubert, William Dean Howells, Stendhal, Honoré de Balzac, Leo Tolstoy, Frank Norris.

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Realism

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Also late 19th century. Proponents of this movement believe heredity and environment control people. Seeks to replicate a believable everyday reality.
Notable authors: Émile Zola, Stephen Crane.

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Naturalism

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Principally French movement of the fin de siècle based on the structure of thought rather than poetic form or image; influential for English language poets from Edgar Allan Poe to James Merrill.
Notable authors: Stéphane Mallarmé, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Valéry.

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Symbolism

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Early-20th century fiction consisting of literary representations of quotidian thought, without authorial presence. The written equivalent of the character's thought processes.
Notable authors: Virginia Woolf, James Joyce.

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Stream of consciousness

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Variegated movement of the early 20th century, encompassing primitivism, formal innovation, or reaction to science and technology.
Notable authors: Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, H.D., James Joyce.

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Modernism

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It was traditionally attributed to Gertrude Stein and was then popularized by Ernest Hemingway in the epigraph to his novel The Sun Also Rises, and his memoir A Moveable Feast. It refers to a group of American literary notables who lived in Paris and other parts of Europe from the time period which saw the end of World War I to the beginning of the Great Depression.
Notable Authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Waldo Pierce.

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The Lost Generation

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Touted by its proponents as anti-art, dada focused on going against artistic norms and conventions.
Notable authors: Guillaume Apollinaire, Kurt Schwitters.

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Dada or Dadaism

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Poets who documented both the idealism and the horrors of the war and the period in which it took place.
Notable authors: Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke.

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First World War Poets

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A Mexican vanguardist group, active in the late twenties and early thirties; published an eponymous literary magazine which served as the group's mouthpiece and artistic vehicle from 1928-31.

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Los Contemporáneos

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Early 20th-century Anglo-American poetry that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language. Poetry based on description rather than theme, and on the motto, "the natural object is always the adequate symbol."
Notable authors: Ezra Pound, H.D., Richard Aldington.

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Imagism

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African American poets, novelists, and thinkers, often employing elements of blues and folklore, based in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the 1920s.
Notable authors: Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston

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Harlem Renaissance

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Originally a French movement, influenced by Surrealist painting, that uses surprising images and transitions to play off of formal expectations and depict the unconscious rather than conscious mind.
Notable authors: Jean Cocteau, Dylan Thomas

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Surrealism

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A group of Southern American poets, based originally at Vanderbilt University, who expressly repudiated many modernist developments in favor of metrical verse and narrative. Some Southern Agrarians were also associated with the New Criticism.
Notable authors: John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren

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Southern Agrarians

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Mid-20th century poetry and prose based on seemingly arbitrary rules for the sake of added challenge.
Notable authors: Raymond Queneau, Walter Abish.

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Oulipo, French for "workshop of potential literature"

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Postwar movement skeptical of absolutes and embracing diversity, irony, and word play.
Notable authors: Jorge Luis Borges, Thomas Pynchon, Alasdair Gray

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Postmodernism

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A self-identified group of poets, originally based at Black Mountain College, who eschewed patterned form in favor of the rhythms and inflections of the human voice.
Notable authors: Charles Olson, Denise Levertov

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Black Mountain poets, sometimes called projectivist poets

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American movement of the 1950s and '60s concerned with counterculture and youthful alienation.
Notable authors: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Ken Kesey

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Beat Generation

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A literary movement in postcolonial India during 1961-65 as a counter-discourse to Colonial Bengali poetry.
Notable poets:Chattopadhyay Shakti,Malay Roychoudhury,Binoy Majumdar

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Hungryalist Poets

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Poetry that, often brutally, exposes the self as part of an aesthetic of the beauty and power of human frailty.
Notable authors: Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath

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Confessional Poetry

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Urban, gay or gay-friendly, leftist poets, writers, and painters of the 1960s.
Notable authors: Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery

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New York School

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Literary movement in which magical elements appear in otherwise realistic circumstances. Most often associated with the Latin American literary boom of the 20th century.
Notable authors: Gabriel García Márquez, Octavio Paz, Günter Grass, Julio Cortázar

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Magic realism

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A diverse, loosely connected movement of writers from former colonies of European countries, whose work is frequently politically charged.
Notable authors: Jamaica Kincaid, V. S. Naipaul, Derek Walcott, Salman Rushdie, Wole Soyinka

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Postcolonialism