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Titel

The Movement

Ist Teil von

• ProQuest Literary Movement Pages, 2019

Ort / Verlag

Ann Arbor: ProQuest

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

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Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The term applied since 1954 to a loose group of English poets whose work subsequently appeared in the anthology New Lines (1956) edited by Robert Conquest. Apart from Conquest himself, the group included Kingsley Amis, Donald Davie, D.J. Enright, Thom Gunn, Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, and John Wain. Their common ground was limited to an avoidance of romantic postures in favour of ironic detachment, a reaction against the excesses of modernism, and a cultivation of poetry as a disciplined craft. The central figures - Larkin and Amis (who both also wrote as novelists) - are associated with a defiantly provincial Englishness, for which the term 'movement' is singularly inappropriate, but others - notably Davie, Enright, and Gunn - had or later acquired a more international perspective. For a fuller account, consult Blake Morrison, The Movement (1980).