{"id":63,"count":2,"description":"The Movement was a term coined by J. D. Scott, literary editor of The Spectator, in 1954 to describe a group of writers including Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, Donald Davie, D.J. Enright, John Wain, Elizabeth Jennings, Thom Gunn, and Robert Conquest. The Movement was essentially English in character; poets in Scotland and Wales were not generally included.\nThe Movement produced two anthologies: Poets of the 1950s (1955) (editor D. J. Enright, published in Japan) and New Lines (1956). Conquest, who edited the New Lines anthology, described the connection between the poets as 'little more than a negative determination to avoid bad principles.' These 'bad principles' are usually described as excess, both in terms of theme and stylistic devices. The polemic introduction to New Lines targeted in particular the 1940s poets, the generation of Dylan Thomas and George Barker \u2014 though not by name. A second New Lines anthology appeared in 1963, by which time The Movement seemed to some a spent...","link":"https:\/\/www.visualbeatz.de\/?tag=the-movement","name":"The Movement","slug":"the-movement","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visualbeatz.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/tags\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visualbeatz.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visualbeatz.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visualbeatz.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts&tags=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}