Movement, the
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Movement, the, a term coined by J. D. Scott, literary editor of the
Spectator, in 1954 to describe a group of writers including
Amis,
Larkin,
Davie,
Enright,
Wain, E.
Jennings, and
Conquest. Two anthologies ( Enright's
Poets of the 1950s, 1955, and Conquest's
New Lines, 1956) illustrate the Movement's predominantly anti-romantic, witty, rational, sardonic tone; its fictional heroes tended to be lower-middle-class scholarship boys. Definitions of its aims were negative and by 1957 its members began to disown it, claiming, in Wain's words, ‘its work is done’.
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Protestant Identities: Religion, Society, and Self-Fashioning in Post-Reformation England.(Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 8/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...a "missing piece in the puzzle of English puritanism." Burke Griggs examines John Walker's attempts to unseat Edmund Calamy's accounts of Nonconformist suffering by producing an empirically based understanding, rather than a Foxean martyrology...
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Ho! Ho! . . . Oh!; There's No Light Without the Dark
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/19/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...outlawed Christmas revels, declaring the day an occasion for fasting and humiliation. On Christmas Day, 1644, Mr. Edmund Calamy preached before the House of Lords, "And truly I think that the superstition and profanation of this day is so rooted...
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The persecution of Thomas Emlyn, 1703-1705.(United Kingdom)
Magazine article from: Journal of Church and State; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...1682. At Doolittle's academy, Emlyn was educated alongside the next generation of leading dissenters, including Edmund Calamy, Matthew Henry and Thomas Rowe. In 1683, without apparently having obtained, any religious orders, Emlyn became...
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Edmund Calamy
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Edmund Calamy , 1600-1666, English Presbyterian...A leader among the Presbyterians, Calamy was a member of the Westminster Assembly...sermons were published. His grandson, Edmund Calamy, 1671-1732, nonconformist minister...
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Calamy, Edmund
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Calamy, Edmund (2) (1671–1732), historian of Nonconformity , grandson of the preceding. His writings throw particular light on the ministers and fellows of colleges ejected in 1662.
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Baxter, Richard (1615–1691)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...his autobiography edited by Matthew Sylvester, which was in turn comprehensively rewritten by the English clergyman Edmund Calamy as An Abridgement of Mr. Baxter's History of His Life and Times (1702). Baxter's extensive correspondence...
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Smectymnuus
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Smectymnuus, the name under which five Presbyterian divines, Stephen Marshall, Edmund Calamy, Thomas Young, Matthew Newcomen, and William Spurstow, published a pamphlet in 1641 attacking episcopacy and Bishop J. Hall...
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