THE MOVEMENT

“The Movement was a term coined by J. D. Scott, literary editor of The Spectator, in 1954 to describe a group of writers including Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, Donald Davie, D.J. Enright, John Wain, Elizabeth Jennings, Thom Gunn, and Robert Conquest. The Movement was essentially English in character; poets in Scotland and Wales were not generally included.”

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The Movement emerged against the extreme romanticism of the New Apocaliptics. These poets worked towards anti-romanticism, the rationality and the sobriety.

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“John Press has described it as "a general retreat from direct comment or involvement in any political or social doctrine”

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The poets that belong to these type of poetry, The Movement, generate two anthologies one in the 50s (Poets of the 50s) and the other, New Lines. These two in a difference that a year, the first one in 1955 and the other one in 1956. At these New Lines belonged: Kingsley Amis, Robert Conquest, Donald Davie, D.J. Enright, Tom Gunn, john Holloway, Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin and John Wain.

In 1963 appeared a second New Lines anthology, to which belong poets as THOMAS Blackburn, Edwin Brock, Hilary Corke, john Fuller, Francis Hope, Ted Hughes, Richard Kell, Thomas Kinsella, Laurence Lerner, Edward Lucie-Smith, George Macbeth, Jame Michie, Jonathan Price, Vernon Scannell, Anthony Thwaite, Hugo Williams, and the same poets as the first one.

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“Philip Larkin, English poet, novelist, and critic, a leading figure of 'The Movement,' term coined to describe a group of British poets that coalesced during the 1950s'The Movement' poets addressed everyday British life in plain, straightforward language and often in traditional forms”.

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Larkin wrote not only poetry but also prose, but his works are not about the typical romantic theme. His works are: The North Ship (1945); A Girl In Winter (1947), High Windows (1974)…

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“He began his literary career as a poet, has published four collections of poetry with Oxford University Press and is currently a member of the Academie Europenne de Poesie”.

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But as we can see Larkin is not the only poet in this group but he is the most characteristic, we also have Enright that his poetry is in the line of communication and his wish of be understand. Another one was Elisabeth Jennnings that was the only woman that collaborate in New Lines , she has some love poems that was in the line of romantic poetry. T. Huges was a poet that describe with a big power animals and nature, but I think that this poetry is a bit sad.

(Historia de la literature inglesa

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“The movement” was a group of young people that they only want wrote poetry, a sincerely poetry. So, his poetry was completely opposite to the romantic line, they didn’t write about nature and love, the main themes in romantic poetry.

With all these information we can say that in The Movement do not appear romantic characteristic in general because this is a movement against the romantics and all their characteristics but we can see some authors that have romantic characteristics as Elisabeth Jennings and T. Huges. So, if in general we can say that this movement is against our theme love and worship of nature, we can see an author that describe, in his way, animal that are part of the nature. So, we can’t say that do not appear any author and any poet in which appear any characteristic of romantic poetry.

BILIOGRAPHY

1. http://www.answers.com/topic/the-movement-literature 16/12/06

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2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement_(literature) 17/12/06

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3. (http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/larkin.htm 15/12/206

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4. (http://www.philiplarkin.com/biblio.htm

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