(UK, historical) A school of 19th century New England poets, often characterized as including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, and Oliv
(UK, historical) A school of 19th century New England poets, often characterized as including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(music, historical, US) Six specific influential classical-music composers who lived during the late-19th and early-20th centuries in Boston, considered part of the Second New England School: John Knowles Paine (1839–1906), Arthur Foote (1853–1937), George Chadwick (1854–1931), Amy Beach (1867–1944), Edward MacDowell (1861–1908), and Horatio Parker (1863–1919).
(music, historical, US) A group of self-taught composers active in New England from 1770 until about 1810; the Yankee tunesmiths collectively.
A late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century school of writing, set in small Scottish towns, a notable example being J. M Barrie's A Small Minister.
William Tecumseh Sherman, 1820–1891, American Civil War general