Movement (literature)

 This article is part of the

Poetry Groups and Movements series.

 Beat generation

 British Poetry Revival

 Concrete poetry

 Imagism

 Modernist poetry

 The Movement

 Objectivist poets

 Parnassian

 Performance poetry

 San Francisco Renaissance

 Sound poetry

 Symbolism

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 Alfred Davie, D.J. Enright, John Wain, Elizabeth Jennings and Robert Conquest.

Although the name was essentially a publicists' concoction, it is used still as a shorthand for these and a few others, including Thom Gunn and John Holloway.

The Movement produced two anthologies: Poets of the 1950s (1955) and New Lines (1956). Their tone is anti-romantic and rational.