Research Catalog

Title

The Movement reconsidered : essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie, and their contemporaries / edited by Zachary Leader.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Leader, Zachary.

Description

viii, 336 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

The Movement was the preeminent poetical grouping of post-war Britain. This collection of essays by poets, critics, and scholars from Britain and America provides new accounts not only of the best-known of Movement writers - Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Thom Gunn and Donald Davie - but of less-familiar contemporaries.

Subject

• Larkin, Philip, 1922-1985
• Amis, Kingsley, 1922-1995
• Gunn, Thom, 1929-2004
• Davie, Donald Alfred, 1922-1995
• Jennings, Elizabeth, 1926-2001
• 1900-1999
• English poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
• Movement, The (English poetry)
• 18.05 English literature
• English poetry
• The Movement Schriftstellergruppe
• Dichters
• Engels
• Engelsk poesi > historia > 1900-talet
• The @Movement <Schriftstellergruppe>

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Aufsatzsammlung.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

'Still going on, all of it': the Movement in the 1950s and the Movement today / Blake Morrison -- The 'truth of skies': Auden, Larkin and the English question / Nicholas Jenkins -- Counter-intuitive Larkin / Craig Raine -- The lesbianism of Philip Larkin / Terry Castle -- Kingsley Amis: against fakery / James Fenton -- Philosophy and literature in the 1950s: the rise of the 'ordinary bloke' / Colin McGinn -- 'The virtues of good prose': verbal hygiene and the Movement / Deborah Cameron -- 'An instrument of articulation': Empson and the Movement / Deborah Bowman -- Boys on the move / Karl Miller -- 'I thought I was so tough': Thom Gunn's postures for combat / Alan Jenkins -- In and out of the Movement: Donald Davie and Thom Gunn / Clive Wilmer -- Donald Davie, the Movement, and modernism / William H. Pritchard -- How it seemed then: an autobiographical anecdotal essay / Anthony Thwaite -- New lines in 1956 / Eric Homberger -- 'Fond of what he's crapping on': Movement poetry and romanticism / Michael O'Neill -- Elizabeth Jennings, the Movement, and Rome / Rachel Buxton -- New lines, movements, and modernisms / Robert Conquest.

ISBN

• 9780199558254
• 0199558256
• 9780199601844
• 0199601844

LCCN

• 2008049521
• 99934337610

OCLC

• ocn276140381
• 276140381
• SCSB-14503812

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library