Trending Literary Movements of all time
The 91 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
849
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modernist literature
characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and verse
492
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Spanish Golden Age
period of flourishing in arts and literature in Spain
446
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Southern Agrarians
twelve authors of the Southern Agrarians manifesto
430
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vorticism
short-lived modernist movement in British art and poetry of the early 20th century
336
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naturalism
literary movement
320
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Black Mountain poets
group of mid-20th-century American postmodern poets
290
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Victorian literature
literature during the period of Queen Victoria's reign
274
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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
216
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Generation of '98
literary movement in Spain at the time of the Spanish–American War
187
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Dalit Panther
social organization
164
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New Culture Movement
revolt against Confucian values
156
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Imagism
20th-century poetry movement
155
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Kailyard school
19th-century Scottish literary movement
133
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Galician-Portuguese lyric
lyric and poetic movement
122
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Stridentism
Mexican literary movement
119
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Nouveau Roman
French literary movement
112
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Progressive Writers' Movement
progressive literary movement in pre-partition British India
97
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Old Comedy
earliest period of ancient Greek comedic drama
96
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Translation Movement
movement that resulted in the translation of texts from various languages into Arabic
95
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Renaissance literature
European literature influenced by the Renaissance
90
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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
85
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Acmeist poetry
school of poetry
83
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Atticism
rhetorical movement originating from 1st century BC Greece
81
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Golden Age of Indiana Literature
Time period from 1880–1920
77
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Précieuses
art movement in literature
76
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30
Latin translations of the 12th century
72
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San Francisco Renaissance
American avant-garde cultural activity in San Francisco as an historical hub
69
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New Formalism
movement in American poetry since the 1970s
69
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impressionism
movement in literature
69
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euphuism
an affected bombastic style of language
58
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Hungry generation
1960s literary movement in the Bengali language
58
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Vormärz
Period of German history before the 1848 revolution
48
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Infrarrealismo
a poetic movement founded in Mexico City in 1975
46
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Angry Penguins
art and literary movement in Australia
46
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hermeticism
literary movement in poetry started in Italy
39
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imaginism
Russian poetry movement
34
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Shinkankakuha
Japanese literary group
34
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Trümmerliteratur
literary movement
33
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Graveyard poets
pre-Romantic English poets of the 18th century
30
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Scapigliatura
Milanese artistic and literary movement of the sixties of the 1800s
30
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verismo
Italian literary movement
28
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Modern Breakthrough
Movement of naturalism and debating literature in Scandinavia
25
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Conceptismo
literary movement of the Baroque period of Portuguese and Spanish literature
22
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Zenitism
yugoslavian avant-garde art movement, from approximately 1921 to 1926
21
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futurism
movement in literature
21
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Byzantine literature of the Justinian era
21
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Mahjar
Levantine diaspora's cultural movement
20
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Literature of the Five Mountains
Principal Zen
19
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Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies
school of Chinese literature in the early 20th century
19
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Jindyworobak Movement
Australian literary movement
19
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Atomic bomb literature
Japanese literary genre
16
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British Poetry Revival
poetry movement
16
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McOndo
Latin American literary movement
15
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Criollismo
Latin American literary movement
14
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Signalism
literary and art movement (1959-)
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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
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Classical Prose Movement
literary movement in Tang and Song dynasty China
12
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Positivism in Poland
socio-cultural movement in Poland after the 1863 January Uprising
12
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Unanimism
literary movement
12
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Thirties Generation
art and literary movement in Greece
11
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Brutalists
literary movement
11
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artistic indianism
Brazilian literary and artistic movement
11
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Conceptual writing
literary movement
11
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Kallol
literary movement in Bengali literature
9
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Generation of '36
group of Spanish artists
9
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Sardinian Literary Spring
millennial period of literature of Sardinia, Italy
8
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Siuru
Estonian literary movement
8
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Danrin school
7
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American literary nationalism
literary movement in the United States in the early-to mid 19th century
7
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Bandaya movement
literary movement in Kannada
6
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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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crepuscolarism
6
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Sagebrush School
American literary school of thought
6
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New Peasant Poets
6
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Huajian Faction
4
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creacionismo
literary movement
4
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Chinese nature poetry
Poems from China with the topic nature
4
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Tweede Asem
3
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New Athenian School
Greek literary movement
3
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Poetism
Czech art and literature movement
2
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Crack Movement
Mexican literary movement
2
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Yefremov School
movement of Soviet science fiction, 1970s to 1990s
2
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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
2
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Wuppertal poets' circle
1850s literary circle in Wuppertal, Germany
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Májovci
Czech literary group
1
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Gong'an school
Chinese literature movement in Late Ming dynasty
1
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Second Generation of Postwar Writers
classification in modern Japanese literature
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