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    The "Cockney School" refers to a group of poets and essayists writing in England in the second and third decades of the 19th century. The term came in...
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  • Example of a Cockney accent Voice of Michael Caine, who grew up in Southwark, London, recorded September 2010 from the BBC Radio 4 programme Front Row...
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    taints of both old and new schools: the obscurity of first-wave Romantics and uneducated affectation of Hunt's "Cockney School". Keats's posthumous reputation...
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    Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel were an English rock band who formed in the early 1970s in London. Their music covered a range of styles from pop to progressive...
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    and John Hamilton Reynolds. The group was known pejoratively as the Cockney School. Some of Hunt's most popular poems are "Jenny kiss'd Me", "Abou Ben...
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    John Gibson Lockhart (category People educated at the High School of Glasgow)
    early years of Blackwood's. Lockhart wrote virulent articles on "The Cockney School of Poetry" of Leigh Hunt, Keats and their contemporaries, although he...
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  • Cockney Wanker is a character created by Graham Dury and Simon Thorpe in Viz based on a stereotyped male Cockney. Wanker speaks in rhyming slang (often...
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    Eric Bristow (redirect from Crafty Cockney)
    John Bristow MBE (25 April 1957 – 5 April 2018), nicknamed "The Crafty Cockney", was an English professional darts player and one of the most recognisable...
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    Bodleian Library. Adcock is considered one of the "Cockney school novelists" (not the earlier Cockney School poets), a group influenced by Charles Dickens...
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    Steve Harley (category Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel members)
    Harley, was an English singer-songwriter and frontman of the rock group Cockney Rebel. The band achieved six UK hit singles in the mid-1970s, including...
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    Romanticism (redirect from Romantic school)
    Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Cox, Jeffrey N. 2004. Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School: Keats, Shelley, Hunt and Their Circle. Cambridge University Press....
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  • The Cockney Alphabet is a recital of the English alphabet intended to parody the way the alphabet is taught to small working class children. The ostensible...
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    Neophilologus, 84, 2, pp. 323–27. Cox, Jeffrey. Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School: Keats, Shelley, Hunt and their Circle. Cambridge: Cambridge University...
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  • of Chicago Press. 1998. Cox, Jeffrey N. Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School: Keats, Shelley, Hunt and their Circle (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)...
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    York: W. W. Norton. Cox, Jeffrey N. 2004. Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School: Keats, Shelley, Hunt and Their Circle. Cambridge University Press....
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    Leigh Hunt and William Hazlitt by referring to their works as the "Cockney School of Poetry". The controversial style of the magazine got it into trouble...
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    founder and editor of the London Magazine. The duel was born out of the Cockney School controversy. John Gibson Lockhart had been abusing many of Scott's contributors...
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  • whom she acted as agent and amanuensis, she belonged to a circle (the Cockney School) of contemporary writers including Byron, Coleridge, Mary Shelley, and...
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  • John Scott (editor) (category People educated at Aberdeen Grammar School)
    Waterloo. He died as the result of a duel, one of the side effects of the Cockney School controversy. John Gibson Lockhart had been abusing many of Scott's contributors...
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  • The Best Years of Our Lives is the third studio album by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, released by EMI on 7 March 1975. It was the first album to feature...
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    Michael Caine (category People educated at Hackney Downs School)
    Micklewhite; 14 March 1933) is a retired English actor. Known for his distinctive Cockney accent, he has appeared in more than 160 films over a career that spanned...
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  • between the members. Cox, Jeffrey N. (2004). Poetry and Politics in the Cockney School. Cambridge University Press. p. 4. ISBN 0-521-60423-0. Keats, John;...
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  • late eighteenth- to early nineteenth-century drama and theater; of the Cockney School of poets, which included, among others, John Keats, Percy Shelley, and...
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    critic, a manager of The Times newspaper. He was also a member of the "Cockney School" literary and musical circle. Alsager was the son of a clothworker from...
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    Criticism: A Review of the First Reviewers of the 'Lake', 'Satanic', and 'Cockney' School 1887 – Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1891 – Mary Magdalene: The New...
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    primarily novels and short story collections, and focused on working-class "cockney school" storylines. The Modernist Journals Project finds that "Pugh's fiction...
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    review of Endymion for his association with Leigh Hunt and the so-called Cockney School of poetry. Shelley blamed Croker's article for bringing about the death...
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    on various topics, including Blackwood's virulent criticism of the "Cockney School", under which Leigh Hunt and John Keats were grouped. The quarrel ended...
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    century, although it has been suggested that the Cockney style of speech is much older. Some features of Cockney include, Th-fronting (pronouncing "th" as "f")...
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  • John Slater (actor) (category People educated at St. Clement Danes School)
    portrayed lugubrious, amiable cockney types. Slater's father was an antiques dealer. After attending St Clement Danes Grammar School in Hammersmith, Slater began...
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