The 'Fleshly School of Poetry' was a derogatory term applied to which group by the critic Robert Buchanan?
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Correct answer: The Pre-Raphaelites
Buchanan attacked D.G. Rossetti and others for what he perceived as an unhealthy focus on physical sensuality and 'fleshly' detail. This sparked a famous literary pamphlet war in the 1870s.
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