Table of Contents
Introduction: Origins and Ambivalences Zachary Leader 1
1 'Still Going On, All of it': The Movement in the 1950s and the Movement Today Blake Morrison 16
2 The 'Truth of Skies': Auden, Larkin and the English Question Nicholas Jenkins 34
3 Counter-intuitive Larkin Craig Raine 62
4 The Lesbianism of Philip Larkin Terry Castle 79
5 Kingsley Amis: Against Fakery James Fenton 106
6 Philosophy and Literature in the 1950s: The Rise of the 'Ordinary Bloke' Colin McGinn 123
7 'The Virtues of Good Prose': Verbal Hygiene and the Movement Deborah Cameron 139
8 'An Instrument of Articulation': Empson and the Movement Deborah Bowman 155
9 Boys on the Move Karl Miller 177
10 'I thought I Was So Tough': Thom Gunn's Postures for Combat Alan Jenkins 187
11 In and Out of the Movement: Donald Davie and Thom Gunn Clive Wilmer 204
12 Donald Davie, The Movement, and Modernism William H. Pritchard 228
13 How It Seemed Then: An Autobiographical Anecdotal Essay Anthony Thwaite 247
14 New Lines in 1956 Eric Homberger 255
15 'Fond of What He's Crapping On': Movement Poetry and Romanticism Michael O'Neill 270
16 Elizabeth Jennings, the Movement, and Rome Rachel Buxton 292
17 New Lines, Movements, and Modernisms Robert Conquest 307
List of Contributors 317
Index 321