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The 100 most-viewed literary movements on Wikipedia, all time. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Romanticism. Data as of 28 October 2026.
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548,327
Total Views (all time)
Country
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1
Romanticism
artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement
82,444
views
views
2
Dada
avant-garde art movement in the early 20th century
58,398
views
views
3
avant-garde
works that are experimental or innovative
41,778
views
views
4
Beat Generation
literary movement
29,966
views
views
5
Decadent movement
late-19th-century artistic and literary movement centered in Western Europe
20,074
views
views
6
Sturm und Drang
Proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music
17,414
views
views
7
Symbolism
late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images
17,263
views
views
8
ero guro
literary and artistic movement originating circa 1930 in Japan
16,156
views
views
9
naturalism
literary movement
15,355
views
views
10
literary realism
literary movement
13,926
views
views
11
Aestheticism
art movement emphasizing aesthetic considerations over social values
12,536
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views
12
postmodern literature
literary form and movement of the twentieth century
12,429
views
views
13
Spanish Golden Age
period of flourishing in arts and literature in Spain
11,611
views
views
14
Japonisme
European imitation of Japanese art during the 19th and 20th centuries
8,004
views
views
15
modernist literature
characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and verse
7,916
views
views
16
Generation of '98
literary movement in Spain at the time of the Spanish–American War
7,079
views
views
17
parnassianism
19th century French literary movement
6,962
views
views
18
New Objectivity
attitude of public life in Weimar Germany as well as the art, literature, music, and architecture created to adapt to it
6,883
views
views
19
impressionism
movement in literature
5,860
views
views
20
La Pléiade
group of French Renaissance poets
5,551
views
views
21
Vormärz
Period of German history before the 1848 revolution
5,237
views
views
22
Latín mmg todos
late 20th global century proliferation of Latin American literature
5,190
views
views
23
Victorian literature
literature during the period of Queen Victoria's reign
5,013
views
views
24
Weimar Classicism
German literary and cultural movement, whose practitioners established a new humanism
4,843
views
views
25
Catalan modernism
architectural and artistic movement originating in late-19th-century Catalonia, Spain
4,662
views
views
26
cosmicism
literary philosophy
4,590
views
views
27
proletarian literature
literature created by working-class writers mainly for the class-conscious proletariat
4,525
views
views
28
Acmeist poetry
school of poetry
4,513
views
views
29
Dolce Stil Novo
literary movement
4,366
views
views
30
vorticism
short-lived modernist movement in British art and poetry of the early 20th century
3,797
views
views
31
Nouveau Roman
French literary movement
3,765
views
views
32
Sentimentalism
literary movement
3,740
views
views
33
verguismo
Italian literary movement
3,634
views
views
34
Baroque literature
literary movement of the Baroque era
3,499
views
views
35
Modernismo
Spanish-American literary movement
3,462
views
views
36
Imagism
20th-century poetry movement
3,169
views
views
37
Indigenismo
trend in social and political thought, visual arts, and literature in Latin American countries where Indians make up a significant part of the population, rehabilitating them
3,072
views
views
38
New Culture Movement
revolt against Confucian values
2,971
views
views
39
Renaissance literature
European literature influenced by the Renaissance
2,779
views
views
40
imaginism
Russian poetry movement
2,701
views
views
41
Précieuses
art movement in literature
2,657
views
views
42
dirty realism
subgenre of literature
2,531
views
views
43
Золотой век русской литературы
2,297
views
views
44
Scapigliatura
Milanese artistic and literary movement of the sixties of the 1800s
2,195
views
views
45
Félibrige
association to promote Occitan language
2,157
views
views
46
Jena Romanticism
German philosophical and literary movement
2,150
views
views
47
Neo-romanticism
movements from the era of Romanticism
2,096
views
views
48
Romantic literature
literature of the Romantic Period
2,006
views
views
49
Dalit Panther
social organization
1,997
views
views
50
Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies
school of Chinese literature in the early 20th century
1,973
views
views
51
Costumbrismo
art movement
1,681
views
views
52
Ultraist movement
Spanish literary movement opposing modernism
1,628
views
views
53
hermeticism
literary movement in poetry started in Italy
1,584
views
views
54
Trümmerliteratur
literary movement
1,527
views
views
55
Hussards
French literary movement in the 1950s
1,430
views
views
56
expressionism
literary movement
1,427
views
views
57
visual poetry
poetry where the text’s layout, typography, and visual arrangement enhance its meaning, blending design with literary art
1,409
views
views
58
The Third Generation of Postwar Writers
modern Japanese literature classification
1,391
views
views
59
Young Germany
disestablishmentarian think tank consiting of young German artists from 1830-1850
1,358
views
views
60
Generation of '36
group of Spanish artists
1,326
views
views
61
Translation Movement
movement that resulted in the translation of texts from various languages into Arabic
1,316
views
views
62
Pre-romanticism
literary movement developed in Europe in the last third of the century XVIII
1,311
views
views
63
infrarealism
a poetic movement founded in Mexico City in 1975
1,299
views
views
64
Atticism
rhetorical movement originating from 1st century BC Greece
1,202
views
views
65
Old Comedy
earliest period of ancient Greek comedic drama
1,158
views
views
66
genbun itchi
unification of the written and spoken forms of Japanese language
1,134
views
views
67
Barroquismo (barroco)
Spanish stylistic movement in the Baroque period
1,089
views
views
68
Galician-Portuguese lyric
lyric and poetic movement
1,043
views
views
69
Neue Sachlichkeit (Literatur)
1,042
views
views
70
Southern Agrarians
twelve authors of the Southern Agrarians manifesto
1,037
views
views
71
Graveyard poets
pre-Romantic English poets of the 18th century
1,034
views
views
72
Conceptismo
literary movement of the Baroque period of Portuguese and Spanish literature
1,029
views
views
73
Restoration literature
literature written during the English restoration
941
views
views
74
symbolism
literary expression of the symbolism art movement
936
views
views
75
San Francisco Renaissance
American avant-garde cultural activity in San Francisco as an historical hub
934
views
views
76
Shinkankakuha
Japanese literary group
918
views
views
77
euphuism
an affected bombastic style of language
913
views
views
78
Latin translations of the 12th century
896
views
views
79
Stridentism
Mexican literary movement
867
views
views
80
Gruppo 63
Italian literary movement
843
views
views
81
Black Mountain poets
group of mid-20th-century American postmodern poets
814
views
views
82
nadaism
Colombian counterculture movement
812
views
views
83
Generation of '50
Spanish literary movement
792
views
views
84
Progressive Writers' Movement
progressive literary movement in pre-partition British India
783
views
views
85
New Formalism
movement in American poetry since the 1970s
766
views
views
86
ukiyozōshi
Japanese literature movement
752
views
views
87
Native American Renaissance
Artistic movement
750
views
views
88
Spanish Baroque literature
literary movement
741
views
views
89
Ego-Futurism
Russian literary movement of the 1910s, developed within Russian Futurism by Igor Severyanin and his early followers
717
views
views
90
Catholic literary revival
1860-1960 movement in France and England
688
views
views
91
crepuscolarism
662
views
views
92
Village Prose
movement in Soviet literature
640
views
views
93
scar literature
Chinese literature portraying damage caused by the Cultural Revolution; Chinese fiction of the late 1970s and early 1980s that focuses on the physical and mental suffering that occurred during the Cultural Revolution.
629
views
views
94
New Narrative
literary movement founded in San Francisco in the 1970s by Robert Glück and Bruce Boone, aiming to represent subjective experience without pretense at absolute objectivity or absolute fluidity of a text
613
views
views
95
Petrarchism
literary style inspired by Petrarch
593
views
views
96
Marinism
name now given to an ornate, witty style of poetry and verse drama written in imitation of Giambattista Marino, following in particular La Lira and L'Adone
572
views
views
97
School of Lyon
group of poets, humanists and scholars from Lyon
547
views
views
98
Mahjar
Levantine diaspora's cultural movement
524
views
views
99
McOndo
Latin American literary movement
522
views
views
100
Japan Romantic School
515
views
views