Trending Literary Movements in USA — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed literary movements on Wikipedia, September 2026 (English-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Dada. Data as of 27 October 2026.
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Ranked
406,419
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Dada
avant-garde art movement in the early 20th century
97,415
views
views
2
Romanticism
artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement
51,644
views
views
3
avant-garde
works that are experimental or innovative
32,261
views
views
4
Beat Generation
literary movement
26,801
views
views
5
ero guro
literary and artistic movement originating circa 1930 in Japan
14,090
views
views
6
Sturm und Drang
Proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music
12,253
views
views
7
Aestheticism
art movement emphasizing aesthetic considerations over social values
11,831
views
views
8
Decadent movement
late-19th-century artistic and literary movement centered in Western Europe
10,946
views
views
9
postmodern literature
literary form and movement of the twentieth century
10,762
views
views
10
Symbolism
late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images
10,434
views
views
11
literary realism
literary movement
7,840
views
views
12
modernist literature
characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and verse
7,750
views
views
13
naturalism
literary movement
5,788
views
views
14
Victorian literature
literature during the period of Queen Victoria's reign
5,351
views
views
15
Japonisme
European imitation of Japanese art during the 19th and 20th centuries
5,169
views
views
16
cosmicism
literary philosophy
4,950
views
views
17
Spanish Golden Age
period of flourishing in arts and literature in Spain
4,869
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
4,070
views
views
19
vorticism
short-lived modernist movement in British art and poetry of the early 20th century
3,740
views
views
20
Catalan modernism
architectural and artistic movement originating in late-19th-century Catalonia, Spain
3,469
views
views
21
Imagism
20th-century poetry movement
3,357
views
views
22
New Culture Movement
revolt against Confucian values
2,646
views
views
23
Dalit Panther
social organization
2,632
views
views
24
Latín mmg todos
late 20th global century proliferation of Latin American literature
2,530
views
views
25
Romantic literature
literature of the Romantic Period
2,448
views
views
26
Generation of '98
literary movement in Spain at the time of the Spanish–American War
2,417
views
views
27
Weimar Classicism
German literary and cultural movement, whose practitioners established a new humanism
2,151
views
views
28
Neo-romanticism
movements from the era of Romanticism
2,076
views
views
29
Renaissance literature
European literature influenced by the Renaissance
1,989
views
views
30
parnassianism
19th century French literary movement
1,856
views
views
31
dirty realism
subgenre of literature
1,830
views
views
32
Southern Agrarians
twelve authors of the Southern Agrarians manifesto
1,646
views
views
33
Nouveau Roman
French literary movement
1,639
views
views
34
Translation Movement
movement that resulted in the translation of texts from various languages into Arabic
1,457
views
views
35
Restoration literature
literature written during the English restoration
1,348
views
views
36
Old Comedy
earliest period of ancient Greek comedic drama
1,339
views
views
37
Sentimentalism
literary movement
1,285
views
views
38
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
1,262
views
views
39
Acmeist poetry
school of poetry
1,247
views
views
40
Jena Romanticism
German philosophical and literary movement
1,207
views
views
41
Précieuses
art movement in literature
1,167
views
views
42
impressionism
movement in literature
1,164
views
views
43
New Formalism
movement in American poetry since the 1970s
1,161
views
views
44
Vormärz
Period of German history before the 1848 revolution
1,149
views
views
45
Progressive Writers' Movement
progressive literary movement in pre-partition British India
1,129
views
views
46
San Francisco Renaissance
American avant-garde cultural activity in San Francisco as an historical hub
1,101
views
views
47
proletarian literature
literature created by working-class writers mainly for the class-conscious proletariat
1,090
views
views
48
Modernismo
Spanish-American literary movement
1,047
views
views
49
Graveyard poets
pre-Romantic English poets of the 18th century
970
views
views
50
Black Mountain poets
group of mid-20th-century American postmodern poets
962
views
views
51
Catholic literary revival
1860-1960 movement in France and England
892
views
views
52
euphuism
an affected bombastic style of language
892
views
views
53
Costumbrismo
art movement
841
views
views
54
Dolce Stil Novo
literary movement
829
views
views
55
La Pléiade
group of French Renaissance poets
800
views
views
56
Atticism
rhetorical movement originating from 1st century BC Greece
797
views
views
57
visual poetry
poetry where the text’s layout, typography, and visual arrangement enhance its meaning, blending design with literary art
795
views
views
58
Latin translations of the 12th century
794
views
views
59
Young Germany
disestablishmentarian think tank consiting of young German artists from 1830-1850
760
views
views
60
Native American Renaissance
Artistic movement
737
views
views
61
The Movement
English literary movement of the 1950s
737
views
views
62
Mahjar
Levantine diaspora's cultural movement
702
views
views
63
Hungry generation
1960s literary movement in the Bengali language
682
views
views
64
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.
681
views
views
65
Southern Renaissance
reinvigoration of Southern US literature in the 1920s–30s by authors such as W. Faulkner, T. Wolfe, C. Gordon, M. Mitchell
676
views
views
66
Modern Breakthrough
Movement of naturalism and debating literature in Scandinavia
635
views
views
67
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
602
views
views
68
Ultraist movement
Spanish literary movement opposing modernism
587
views
views
69
McOndo
Latin American literary movement
569
views
views
70
infrarealism
a poetic movement founded in Mexico City in 1975
527
views
views
71
hermeticism
literary movement in poetry started in Italy
509
views
views
72
Spanish mystics
Early modern Catholic mystics
503
views
views
73
futurism
movement in literature
485
views
views
74
Trümmerliteratur
literary movement
482
views
views
75
Félibrige
association to promote Occitan language
447
views
views
76
Augustan poetry
Roman poetry during Augustus's reign (27 BC-14 AD)
445
views
views
77
Angry Penguins
art and literary movement in Australia
436
views
views
78
Conceptismo
literary movement of the Baroque period of Portuguese and Spanish literature
435
views
views
79
Barroquismo (barroco)
Spanish stylistic movement in the Baroque period
434
views
views
80
Shinkankakuha
Japanese literary group
430
views
views
81
ukiyozōshi
Japanese literature movement
408
views
views
82
Ego-Futurism
Russian literary movement of the 1910s, developed within Russian Futurism by Igor Severyanin and his early followers
395
views
views
83
imaginism
Russian poetry movement
384
views
views
84
verguismo
Italian literary movement
378
views
views
85
Scapigliatura
Milanese artistic and literary movement of the sixties of the 1800s
360
views
views
86
Kristiania Bohemians
352
views
views
87
British Poetry Revival
poetry movement
340
views
views
88
créolité
literary movement first developed in the 1980s as a response to the perceived inadequacies of the négritude movement; neologism which attempts to describe the cultural and linguistic heterogeneity of places like the Antilles
336
views
views
89
Galician-Portuguese lyric
lyric and poetic movement
335
views
views
90
Generation of '36
group of Spanish artists
323
views
views
91
Stridentism
Mexican literary movement
323
views
views
92
Jindyworobak Movement
Australian literary movement
318
views
views
93
Zenitism
yugoslavian avant-garde art movement, from approximately 1921 to 1926
318
views
views
94
Kailyard school
19th-century Scottish literary movement
316
views
views
95
Spanish Baroque literature
literary movement
311
views
views
96
Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies
school of Chinese literature in the early 20th century
295
views
views
97
Ultra-Romanticism
19th century Portuguese literacy and artistic movement
294
views
views
98
Cockney School
group of 19th-century English poets and essayists
254
views
views
99
Atomic bomb literature
Japanese literary genre
252
views
views
100
Hussards
French literary movement in the 1950s
251
views
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