Claim: Cockney School, a group of poets and essayists writing in England in the second and third decades of the 19th century, is a term which came in the form of hostile reviews in Blackwood's Magazine in 1817 in which the primary target was Leigh Hunt.
Evidence: The "Cockney School" refers to a group of poets and essayists writing in England in the second and third decades of the 19th century. The term came in the form of hostile reviews in Blackwood's Magazine in 1817. Its primary target was Leigh Hunt, but John Keats and William Hazlitt were also included.