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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