TheFleshly School is the name given byRobert Buchanan to a realistic, sensualschool ofpoets, to whichDante Gabriel Rossetti,William Morris, andAlgernon Charles Swinburne belonged. He accused them of immorality in an article entitled "The Fleshly School of Poetry" inThe Contemporary Review in October 1871. This article was expanded into a pamphlet (1872), but he subsequently withdrew from the criticisms it contained, and it is chiefly remembered by the replies it evoked from Rossetti in a letter to theAthenaeum (December 16, 1871), entitledThe Stealthy School of Criticism, and from Swinburne inUnder the Microscope (1872).
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