Английское литературное движение 1950-х годов: "Движение" и его преемники.

English literary movement of the 1950s
a specific literary movement

The Movement was a term coined in 1954 by J. D. Scott, literary editor of The Spectator, to describe a group of writers including Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Donald Davie, D. J. Enright, John Wain, Elizabeth Jennings, Thom Gunn and Robert Conquest. The Movement was quintessentially English in character; poets from other parts of the United Kingdom were not involved.

Although considered a literary group, members of the Movement saw themselves more as an actual literary movement, with each writer sharing a common purpose. To these poets, good poetry meant simple, sensuous content and traditional, conventional and dignified form. The Movement's importance includes its worldview, which took into account the collapse of the British Empire and the United Kingdom's drastically reduced power and influence over world geo politics. The group's objective was to prove the importance of traditional English poetry, over the American led innovations of modernist poetry. The members of the Movement were not anti modernity but they were opposed to modernist literature, which was reflected in the Englishness of their poetry. In 1963, a sequel to the original New Lines anthology, titled New Lines 2, was published. It included many of the authors from the original anthology, as well as younger English poets like Thomas Blackburn, Edwin Brock, Hilary Corke, John Fuller, Ted Hughes, Edward Lucie Smith, Anthony Thwaite and Hugo Williams.

The "Angry Young Men" movement occurred in 1956 during the turning point of the Movement. David Lodge attributed the Movement's decline to the publication of the New Lines anthology. After these events, the Movement became less exclusive. Members were no longer required to fight and defend one another's work, for they had become accepted members of the literary world. The Movement was succeeded in the 1960s by “The Group”, whose members included Philip Hobsbaum, Alan Brownjohn, Adrian Mitchell, Peter Porter, Edward Lucie Smith, George MacBeth, Ian Hamilton's Review school and Michael Horovitz's "Children of Albion". The Group was similar to the Movement; they shared similar ideas about the form and seriousness of modernist poetry.