Movement (literature)

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, John Holloway.

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