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| The Agrarians | Southern writers who included J.C. Ransom, Allen Tate, R.P Warran, Thomas Jefferson. They supported a southern economy based on agriculture. |
| The Knickerbocker Group | A group of New York writers, organized by geography. |
| Bread and Cheese Group | This organization was more of a social club than a literary group. |
| New Humanism | Organized during the Naturalistic and Symbolistic Period (1920-1930). |
| James Fenimore Cooper | Started the Bread and Cheese Group. |
| The Harlem Renaissance | A group of Black authors who wrote during the 1920's. |
| The Knickerbocker Group | Noted members were William Cullen Bryant and James Fenimore Cooperl. |
| The Harlem Renaissance | Members included Gwendolyn Brooks, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay. |
| The Muckrakers | A group of writers who worked to expose the dishonest and unscrupulous methods of America's big businesses and the corruptions of national governement. |
| Matthew Arnold | Role model for the New Humanism. |
| The New Humanism | Emphasized the moral qualities of American literature. |
| Confessional Poetry | Works of contemporary poets that often reveal,and sometimes painfully display, private and personal matters. |
| The Beat Generation | A group of poets and novelists in the 1950's and 1960's whose writings rebelled against conventional society. |
| The Beat Generation | The term "beat" expresses the "exhaustion" the writers felt toward conventional society and conventional literature. |
| The Chicago Critics | Thought that there were numerous approaches to critiquing literature. |
| The Lost Generation | A group of young writers who served in, and were affected by, World War I. |
| The Beat Generation | Included Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerovac, and Lawrence Ferling-Hetti as members. |
| The Lost Generation | Included Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Upton Sinclair as members. |
| The Muckrakers | Included Lincoln Steffens, Upton Sinclair, and Ida Tarbel as members. |
| Gertrude Stein | Gave a group of young American writers, living in Paris after World War I, the name "The Lost Generation." |
