Literary movements for the signs

Aries : Confessional poetry. Poetry that, often brutally, exposes the self as part of an aesthetic of the beauty and power of human frailty.

Taurus : Cavalier Poets. 17th-century English royalist poets, writing primarily about courtly love

Gemini : Postmodernism. Postwar movement skeptical of absolutes and embracing diversity, irony, and word play

Cancer :Naturalism. Also late 19th century. Proponents of this movement believe heredity and environment control people.

Leo : Romanticism. 19th-century (1800 to 1860) movement emphasizing emotion and imagination, rather than logic and scientific thought.

Virgo : Realism. Late-19th-century movement based on a simplification of style and image and an interest in poverty and everyday concerns.

Libra : New York School. Urban, gay or gay-friendly, leftist poets, writers, and painters of the 1960s.

Scorpio : Dark Romanticism. 19th-century American movement in reaction to Transcendentalism. Finds man inherently sinful and self-destructive and nature a dark, mysterious force.

Sagittarius : Transcendentalism. 19th-century American movement: poetry and philosophy concerned with self-reliance, independence from modern technology.

Capricorn : The Augustans. 18th-century literary movement based chiefly on classical ideals, satire and skepticism.

Aquarius : Stridentism. Mexican artistic avant-garde movement. They exalted modern urban life and social revolution.

Pisces : Stream of consciousness. Early-20th-century fiction consisting of literary representations of quotidian thought, without authorial presence.