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The Movement reconsidered : essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie, and their contemporaries
- 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.
- Subjects
- English poetry
- 1900-1999
- Jennings, Elizabeth, 1926-2001
- Davie, Donald Alfred, 1922-1995
- Gunn, Thom, 1929-2004
- Amis, Kingsley, 1922-1995
- Larkin, Philip, 1922-1985
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- The @Movement <Schriftstellergruppe>
- Engelsk poesi > historia > 1900-talet
- Engels
- Dichters
- The Movement > Schriftstellergruppe
- Movement, The (English poetry)
- 18.05 English literature
- English poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
- 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