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Leigh Hunt, Hazlitt, Shelley, and Keats; so called by Lockhart. (1817.)
“If I may be permitted to have the honour of christening it, it may be henceforth referred to by the designation of the ‘Cockney School.ʹ”—Z., Blackwood’s Magazine, Oct., 1817.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.