Fleshly School

Name given by the writer Robert Buchanan to the Pre-Raphaelite group of poets. He applied the term particularly to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in a hostile article published in the Contemporary Review 1871. It appeared under the pseudonym Robert Maitland, but the authorship soon became known and a violent controversy ensued. Rossetti wrote a temperate reply with the title ‘The Stealthy School of Criticism’ in the Athenaeum later the same year.