Trending Literary Movements of all time
The 85 most-viewed literary movements of all time on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Romanticism.
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Romanticism
artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement
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Dada
avant-garde art movement in the early 20th century
10,822
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avant-garde
works that are experimental or innovative
9,875
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Decadent movement
late-19th-century artistic and literary movement centered in Western Europe
440
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Southern Agrarians
twelve authors of the Southern Agrarians manifesto
430
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Black Mountain poets
group of mid-20th-century American postmodern poets
290
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Spanish Golden Age
period of flourishing in arts and literature in Spain
268
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modernist literature
characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and verse
240
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vorticism
short-lived modernist movement in British art and poetry of the early 20th century
189
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naturalism
literary movement
172
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Victorian literature
literature during the period of Queen Victoria's reign
145
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Kailyard school
19th-century Scottish literary movement
133
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13
Galician-Portuguese lyric
lyric and poetic movement
122
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Stridentism
Mexican literary movement
119
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New Objectivity
attitude of public life in Weimar Germany as well as the art, literature, music, and architecture created to adapt to it
112
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Generation of '98
literary movement in Spain at the time of the Spanish–American War
97
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Dalit Panther
social organization
89
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New Culture Movement
revolt against Confucian values
85
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Imagism
20th-century poetry movement
82
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Golden Age of Indiana Literature
Time period from 1880–1920
77
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21
Nouveau Roman
French literary movement
63
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22
Progressive Writers' Movement
progressive literary movement in pre-partition British India
61
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Translation Movement
movement that resulted in the translation of texts from various languages into Arabic
59
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24
Renaissance literature
European literature influenced by the Renaissance
48
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Atticism
rhetorical movement originating from 1st century BC Greece
45
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Indigenismo
trend in social and political thought, visual arts, and literature in Latin American countries where Indians make up a significant part of t
45
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27
Old Comedy
earliest period of ancient Greek comedic drama
44
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28
New Formalism
movement in American poetry since the 1970s
42
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29
Acmeist poetry
school of poetry
37
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impressionism
movement in literature
36
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Précieuses
art movement in literature
34
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Latin translations of the 12th century
32
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Hungry generation
1960s literary movement in the Bengali language
29
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Infrarrealismo
a poetic movement founded in Mexico City in 1975
28
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euphuism
an affected bombastic style of language
28
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36
Vormärz
Period of German history before the 1848 revolution
27
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37
San Francisco Renaissance
American avant-garde cultural activity in San Francisco as an historical hub
27
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38
hermeticism
literary movement in poetry started in Italy
23
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39
imaginism
Russian poetry movement
21
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Byzantine literature of the Justinian era
21
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41
Angry Penguins
art and literary movement in Australia
19
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42
Scapigliatura
Milanese artistic and literary movement of the sixties of the 1800s
19
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Literature of the Five Mountains
Principal Zen
19
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44
verismo
Italian literary movement
16
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45
Modern Breakthrough
Movement of naturalism and debating literature in Scandinavia
15
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Graveyard poets
pre-Romantic English poets of the 18th century
15
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Trümmerliteratur
literary movement
14
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48
Shinkankakuha
Japanese literary group
13
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Conceptismo
literary movement of the Baroque period of Portuguese and Spanish literature
13
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Zenitism
yugoslavian avant-garde art movement, from approximately 1921 to 1926
11
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futurism
movement in literature
11
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Atomic bomb literature
Japanese literary genre
11
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Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies
school of Chinese literature in the early 20th century
10
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Signalism
literary and art movement (1959-)
10
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Criollismo
Latin American literary movement
9
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Marinism
name now given to an ornate, witty style of poetry and verse drama written in imitation of Giambattista Marino, following in particular La L
9
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McOndo
Latin American literary movement
9
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Positivism in Poland
socio-cultural movement in Poland after the 1863 January Uprising
8
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Conceptual writing
literary movement
8
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Mahjar
Levantine diaspora's cultural movement
8
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Classical Prose Movement
literary movement in Tang and Song dynasty China
7
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62
British Poetry Revival
poetry movement
7
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63
Unanimism
literary movement
7
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64
artistic indianism
Brazilian literary and artistic movement
6
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Brutalists
literary movement
6
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66
Jindyworobak Movement
Australian literary movement
6
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67
Taiwanese literature movement
effort of authors, poets, dramatists, musicians, and publishers in Taiwan to establish recognition of a distinctly Taiwanese body of literat
6
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Siuru
Estonian literary movement
6
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Kallol
literary movement in Bengali literature
5
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Thirties Generation
art and literary movement in Greece
5
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American literary nationalism
literary movement in the United States in the early-to mid 19th century
4
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Bandaya movement
literary movement in Kannada
4
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Generation of '36
group of Spanish artists
4
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crepuscolarism
4
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75
New Peasant Poets
4
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76
Sagebrush School
American literary school of thought
4
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Tweede Asem
3
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creacionismo
literary movement
3
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Danrin school
3
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Chinese nature poetry
Poems from China with the topic nature
2
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New Athenian School
Greek literary movement
2
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82
Májovci
Czech literary group
1
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Second Generation of Postwar Writers
classification in modern Japanese literature
1
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Garip
a poetry movement that defends the need to avoid stereotypes and is based on beauty of phraseology by opposing formalism and sentimentalism
1
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Sardinian Literary Spring
millennial period of literature of Sardinia, Italy
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