Movement Poets

Movement Poets were a loosely connected group of British poets in the 1950s, including Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, D. J. Enright, John Wain, and Robert Conquest. They favored plain speech, irony, restraint, and everyday subjects, and they often rejected the grand tone, mythology, and elaborate allusion associated with more self-consciously "poetic" writing.

The label was originally used by critics and was never a strict membership list or a formal literary school.

Example

The bus was late again.
Rain made the windows dull.
He checked his watch, shrugged,
and went on reading the paper.

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