The Movement reconsidered : essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie, and their contemporaries / edited by Zachary Leader
2009, First Edition. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #443258
ISBN: 9780199558254
Physical description; viii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Notes; 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. Subjects; Larkin, Philip 1922-1985. Amis, Kingsley 1922-1995. Gunn, Thom 1929-2004. Davie, Donald Alfred 1922-1995. Jennings, Elizabeth 1926-2001. Jennings, Elizabeth 1926-. Davie, Donald. Gunn, Thom. Amis, Kingsley. Larkin, Philip. 1900-1999. English poetry 20th century History and criticism. Movement, The (English poetry).
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