For homonymous articles, see Confessionalism.
The term "denominationalism" refers to a genre of poetic scoring in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. This term is still used today in the United States, but generally with a pejorative connotation, to refer to poems revealing personal experiences in a neglected style.
Poets classified as confessionalists draw their inspiration from their personal experience. Often masters in the art of versification, their main literary subject is their own life, their personal traumas. Among the poets that appeared in the 1950s, two of the greatest representatives of sectarianism are Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. Many of John Berryman's works are considered confessionalists, and Robert Lowell is widely recognized as the undisputed master of this current. There is also a flagrant kinship with confessionalism in the works of the Beat generation poets of the 1950s and 1960s, including Allen Ginsberg.
Many confessionist poets explore themes related to madness in their works. Even though most of the confessionists of the 1950s and 1960s knew and talked to each other, they never sought to identify themselves in a separate literary stream. The name "Confessionalism" was developed and applied to this movement in the 1970s.
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