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Spasmodic poets

literary movement comprising a small group of minor poets about the middle of the 19th century, represented by Philip James Bailey, Sydney Dobell, and Alexander Smith, from their strenuous, overstrained, and unnatural style
Intangible literary_movement Q7573984
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Summary

Spasmodic poets is a literary movement[1].

Key Facts

  • Country: United Kingdom[2]
  • Has part(s): Philip James Bailey[3], Sydney Thompson Dobell[4], Alexander Smith[5], John Stanyan Bigg[6], George Gilfillan[7]
  • Inception: 1854[8]
  • Described by source: The Nuttall Encyclopædia[9]

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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