The Cockney Romantics: John Keats and his Friends 

The younger generation of English Romantics were Londoners through and through. They were known as the 'Cockney School of Poetry'.
A lecture by Sir Jonathan Bate FBA, Gresham Professor of Rhetoric 14 May 2019
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The word Romanticism makes us think of mountain tops and stormy seas, but the younger generation of English Romantics (above all, John Keats) were Londoners through and through. They were even mocked as ‘the Cockney School of Poetry’.
Jonathan Bate will track Keats to Hampstead and tell of the extraordinary circle of writers - opium-eater Thomas De Quincey, essayist Charles Lamb, master-critic William Hazlitt - who wrote for The London Magazine, until its gifted editor was killed in a duel with a rival critic.
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