American Renaissance (literature)
The American Renaissance period in American literature ran from about 1830 to around the Civil War. A central term in American studies, the American Renaissance was for a while considered synonymous with American Romanticism and was closely associated with Transcendentalism.
San Francisco Renaissance
The Tallman / Allen anthology was central to defining both the poetics and broader cultural dynamics of a particular historical moment now referred to as the San Francisco Renaissance. Though a particular "generation" had now been named (in large part because of the Tallman / Allen anthology), today the debate continues as to the viability or use of the term "San Francisco Renaissance" as a "label" to define an entire era or generation.