[New-Poetry] saroyan, epic, dead movements

[David Bircumshaw]

> How many of them were there, and what did they do, as poets, Dave?
>
> --Bob
the term was a nickname and they mostly wrote subjective soliloquies and 
verse dramas. Some poets who have survived, like the early Tennyson, 
Clough, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Beddoes (posthumosly), were lumped 
in with them but they really weren't part of the 'school', if school 
there were. William McGonagall's mentor was one of them.

There's a contemporary essay (1858) from the North British Review at:

http://www.gerald-massey.org.uk/massey/cpr_the_spasmodists.htm


Best

Dave

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