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Zusatztext The most useful critical guide to the Movement that has appeared in recent years... Informationen zum Autor Zachary Leader is Professor of English Literature at Roehampton University. He has also taught at Cambridge, Harvard, Caltech, Universite Rennes 2, Haute Bretagne, and the University of Chicago. He is a scholar of the English Romantic Period as well as of modern British and American writing. Among his books are studies of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1981) and Revision and Romantic Authorship (1996). He has edited the Oxford Authors Shelley (with Michael O'Neill, 2003), an anthology of non-canonical Romantic period writings (with Ian Haywood, 1999), the letters of Kingsley Amis (2000), and a volume of original essays on modern British fiction (2002). His authorised biography of Kingsley Amis was one of three finalists for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Biography. In 2008 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Klappentext The Movement was the preeminent poetical grouping of post-war Britain. This collection of original essays by distinguished poets, critics, and scholars from Britain and America provides new accounts not only of the best-known of Movement writers - Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Thom Gunn, and Donald Davie - but of less-familiar contemporaries. Zusammenfassung The Movement was the preeminent poetical grouping of post-war Britain. This collection of original essays by distinguished poets, critics, and scholars from Britain and America provides new accounts not only of the best-known of Movement writers - Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Thom Gunn, and Donald Davie - but of less-familiar contemporaries. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Blake Morrison: 'Still Going On, All of It': The Movement in the 1950s and the Movement Today 2: Nicholas Jenkins: The 'Truth of Skies': Auden, Larkin and the English Question 3: Craig Raine: Counter-intuitive Larkin 4: Terry Castle: The Lesbianism of Philip Larkin 5: James Fenton: Kingsley Amis: Against Fakery 6: Colin McGinn: Philosophy and Literature in the 1950s: The Rise of the 'Ordinary Bloke' 7: Deborah Cameron: 'The Virtues of Good Prose': Verbal Hygiene and the Movement 8: Deborah Bowman: 'An Instrument of Articulation': Empson and the Movement 9: Karl Miller: Boys of the Move 10: Alan Jenkins: 'I Thought I Was So Tough': Thom Gunn's Postures for Combat 11: Clive Wilmer: In and Out of the Movement: Donald Davie and Thom Gunn 12: William H. Pritchard: Donald Davie, The Movement, and Modernism 13: Anthony Thwaite: How It Seemed Then 14: Eric Homberger: New Lines in 1956 15: Michael O'Neill: 'Fond of What He's Crapping On': Movement Poetry and Romanticism 16: Rachel Buxton: Elizabeth Jennings and Rome 17: Robert Conquest: New Lines, Movements, and Modernisms ...
