“It is strange that no one seems to think it at all necessary to say a single word about another new school of poetry which has of late sprung up among us. This school has not, I believe, as yet received any name; but if I may be permitted to have the honour of christening it, it may henceforth be referred to by the designation of The Cockney School.”

— John Gibson Lockhart

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, October 1817, p. 38.

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