Table of Contents

Zachary Leader: 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

About the Author

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.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition Excellent'
D. J. Taylor, Times Literary Supplement
`It should be read.'
Nicholas Haslam, The Spectator
`The best essays here are robust in address, firm in judgment, and alert for the deflating hatpin behind the arras. It's seldom you get to use the word 'rollicking' of semi-academic literary criticism, but some of these earn the epithet.'
Sam Leith, The Spectator
`The most absorbing essay in the book... is Terry Castle's "The Lesbianism of Phillip Larkin"... Castle shows that it's possible to write wittily and sensitively about aspects of Larkin's life that usually get treated with horror, jeers or indignant defensiveness.'
Christopher Tayler, The Guardian
`Many good essays in this collection'
Stefan Collini, London Review of Books
`Expertly compiled'
The Observer
`The most useful critical guide to the Movement that has appeared in recent years...'
Alan Brownjohn, Literary Review