Fleshly School
The Fleshly School is the name given by Robert Buchanan to a realistic, sensual
school of poets, to which Dante [Gabriel Rossetti], William Morris, and Algernon [Charles Swinburne] belonged. He accused them of immorality in an article entitled "The Fleshly School of Poetry" in The [Contemporary Review] in October 1871. This article was expanded into a pamphlet, 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 the Athenaeum, entitled The Stealthy School of Criticism, and from Swinburne in Under the Microscope.