The Movement (literature)

As The Movement, a loose group is referred to by English writers of the 1950s.

The term was first used in 1954 in the magazine The Spectator, to characterize a putative anti- romantic and anti- modernist common in the works of Donald Davie, Thom Gunn, Kingsley Amis, Iris Murdoch and John Wain. Two anthologies, Poets of the 1950s (1955) and New Lines ( 1956), also brought DJ Enright, Robert Conquest ( the respective Editor), Philip Larkin and Elizabeth Jennings in conjunction with The Movement.

The Anti- Romantic and anti - modernism of the Movement are often seen in the dislike of an excess of feelings and against stylistic experiments and in the resulting formal, linguistic clarity and content of the works that are assigned to the Movement. In the literature, however, there is confusion about whether it was a conscious, real movement of the authors mentioned in The Movement; also be the initial lump criticism of the anti - modernism and discard, this has impeded the development of English poetry, today supports only conditionally.

The Movement gradually faded with the advent of The Group and the Angry Young Men