I mostly agree with Hilary in that I rarely think of poetry in terms of "schools," other than when I'm teaching a poetry course...in which case it's often useful to delineate. That being said, there's something special to me about the Harlem Renaissance. What I especially love (beyond the free expression of a marginalized group) is that members of the Harlem Renaissance were stylistically all over the map. You had the high formalism of Claude McKay rubbing elbows with the (mostly) free verse of Langston Hughes...but they were undeniably unified.
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