- Oxford Handbooks of Literature
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- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: The Limits and Openness of the Contemporary
- Modernist Survivors
- The Thirties Bequest
- The Unburied Past: Walking with Ghosts of the 1940s
- ‘Obscure and Doubtful’: Stevie Smith, F. T. Prince, and Legacy
- The Movement: Never and Always
- ‘In Different Voices’: Modernism Since the 1960s
- Two Poetries?: A Re-Examination Of The ‘Poetry Divide’ In 1970s Britain
- A Dog’s Chance: The Evolution of Contemporary Women’s Poetry?
- Cat-Scanning the Little Magazine
- Books and the Market: Trade Publishers, State Subsidies, and Small Presses
- ‘Space Available’: A Poet’s Decisions
- Contemporary Poetry and Close Reading
- ‘All Livin Language is Sacred’: Poetry and Varieties of English in these Islands
- Misremembered Lyric and Orphaned Music
- ‘The Degree of Power Exercised’: Recent Ekphrasis
- Cinema Mon Amour: How British Poetry Fell In Love With Film
- Singing Schools and Beyond: The Roles of Creative Writing
- Historical and Archaeological: The Poetry of Recovery and Memory
- London, Albion
- The ‘London Cut’: Poetry and Science
- ‘Dafter than We Care to Own’: Some Poets of the North of England
- Auden in Ireland
- ‘Other Modes of Being’: Nuala ní Dhomhnaill, Paul Muldoon, and Translation
- Writing [W]here: Gender and Cultural Positioning in Ireland and Wales
- The Altered Sublime: Raworth, Crozier, Prynne
- Dislocating Country: Post-War English Poetry and The Politics of Movement
- Multi-Ethnic British Poetries
- European Affinities
- Scottish Poetry in the Wider World
- The View from the Usa
- Audience and Awkwardness: Personal Poetry in Britain and New Zealand
- Speech Acts, Responsibility, and Commitment in Poetry
- ‘Is a Chat with me your Fancy?’: Address in Contemporary British Poetry
- ‘There Again’: Composition, Revision, and Repair
- Reparation, Atonement, and Redress
- Contemporary Poetry and Belief
- The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Poet
- Contemporary Poetry and Value
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
The Movement is a product not only of 1950s journalism but also of its historical moment, here identified with a general wish to ‘speak out’ in poetry. Philip Larkin is thought to epitomize Movement poetry and was therefore prominent in Blake Morrison’s account, which consequently underestimated the part played by Donald Davie in the attempt to revitalize the social function of poetry. Davie’s urbanity and the colloquialism of Larkin and Amis seemed for a while to have common purpose. Davie’s disillusion with the Movement left the way clear for Larkin to be seen as its embodiment. Uncertainty as to what the Movement was, inherent in its journalistic origins, meant that, as time passed, it could be denigrated with ease in the cause of other ideas of poetry. However, it remains in need of assessment in its own terms and as a specifically English cultural phenomenon.
MARTIN DODSWORTH is Emeritus Professor of English Literature, Royal Holloway, University of London. He has written on poetry for The Review, The London Magazine, The Listener and The Guardian, and edited The Survival of Poetry (1970).
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- Oxford Handbooks of Literature
- [UNTITLED]
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: The Limits and Openness of the Contemporary
- Modernist Survivors
- The Thirties Bequest
- The Unburied Past: Walking with Ghosts of the 1940s
- ‘Obscure and Doubtful’: Stevie Smith, F. T. Prince, and Legacy
- The Movement: Never and Always
- ‘In Different Voices’: Modernism Since the 1960s
- Two Poetries?: A Re-Examination Of The ‘Poetry Divide’ In 1970s Britain
- A Dog’s Chance: The Evolution of Contemporary Women’s Poetry?
- Cat-Scanning the Little Magazine
- Books and the Market: Trade Publishers, State Subsidies, and Small Presses
- ‘Space Available’: A Poet’s Decisions
- Contemporary Poetry and Close Reading
- ‘All Livin Language is Sacred’: Poetry and Varieties of English in these Islands
- Misremembered Lyric and Orphaned Music
- ‘The Degree of Power Exercised’: Recent Ekphrasis
- Cinema Mon Amour: How British Poetry Fell In Love With Film
- Singing Schools and Beyond: The Roles of Creative Writing
- Historical and Archaeological: The Poetry of Recovery and Memory
- London, Albion
- The ‘London Cut’: Poetry and Science
- ‘Dafter than We Care to Own’: Some Poets of the North of England
- Auden in Ireland
- ‘Other Modes of Being’: Nuala ní Dhomhnaill, Paul Muldoon, and Translation
- Writing [W]here: Gender and Cultural Positioning in Ireland and Wales
- The Altered Sublime: Raworth, Crozier, Prynne
- Dislocating Country: Post-War English Poetry and The Politics of Movement
- Multi-Ethnic British Poetries
- European Affinities
- Scottish Poetry in the Wider World
- The View from the Usa
- Audience and Awkwardness: Personal Poetry in Britain and New Zealand
- Speech Acts, Responsibility, and Commitment in Poetry
- ‘Is a Chat with me your Fancy?’: Address in Contemporary British Poetry
- ‘There Again’: Composition, Revision, and Repair
- Reparation, Atonement, and Redress
- Contemporary Poetry and Belief
- The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Poet
- Contemporary Poetry and Value
- Index
