ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Anger as a force in 1950s literature had its origins in a group known as the Movement. Deeply English in outlook, the Movement was a gathering of poets including Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Elizabeth Jennings, Thom Gunn, John Wain, D J Enright and Robert Conquest.

Detailed explanation-2: -During the 1950s, a vigorous anti-establishment, and anti-traditional literary movement emerged. The main writers of this movement, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, are called Beat Writers.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Movement was a term coined in 1954 by J. D. Scott, literary editor of The Spectator, to describe a group of writers including Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Donald Davie, D. J. Enright, John Wain, Elizabeth Jennings, Thom Gunn and Robert Conquest.

Detailed explanation-4: -Philip Larkin is one of the Movement Poets. His detractors talk of his gloom, philistinism, insularity, and anti-modernism. But his long poems have authority and grandiloquence, and his shorter poems have grace, sharpness and humour.

Detailed explanation-5: -Besides being a poet of movement he is also called a realistic poet. Poetry of movement is much closer to reality, hence some common themes of Philip Larkin poetry are death, religion, fear, dread and isolation. Larkin’s poetry is universal in nature, which is one of the major characteristics of modern poetry.