单词 | the movement |
释义 | > as lemmasthe Movement c. Usually the Movement. A loose grouping of young English poets (and other writers) of the 1950s who sought to restore the values of rationalism and craftsmanship to poetry.The key figures are usually identified as those poets included in Robert Conquest's 1956 anthology New Lines: Kingsley Amis, Donald Davie, D. J. Enright, Thom Gunn, John Holloway, Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, John Wain, and Conquest himself. Their poetry of that period is regarded as typically anti-romantic and ironic in tone. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > school of poets or poetic movement > [noun] Lake poets1816 Lake school1816 Satanic school1821 Spasmodic School1832 imagism1912 Acmeism1913 Adamism1913 unanimism1931 ultraism1932 the Movement1954 Simultaneism1959 spatialism1964 1954 Spectator 27 Aug. 261/1 Poets of the Fifties... For better or for worse, we are now in the presence of the only considerable movement in English poetry since the Thirties.] 1954 J. D. Scott in Spectator 1 Oct. 400/2 Genuflections towards Dr. Leavis and Professor Empson, admiration for people whom the Thirties by-passed, Orwell above all..are indeed signs by which you may recognise the Movement. 1955 P. Larkin Let. 23 Feb. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 236 I have a sort of feeling about Jonathan Price's poetry, even though it's handicapped at present by ‘movement’ idiom. 1972 D. Timms Philip Larkin i. 15 I am reminded here of John Wain's description of the Movement as an avant garde that was a rear guard. 2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 24 Feb. 29/1 Enright later found affinities with ‘the Movement’—a loosely grouped school of poets that advocated terseness and public subjects in verse. the Movement d. Usually the Movement. Any of several loosely affiliated left-wing movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s; spec. the women's liberation movement. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > [noun] > discrimination or inegalitarianism > by sex > opposition to womanism1850 women's movement1851 woman's movement1853 woman movement1854 feminism1895 women's liberation1898 the Movement1966 women's group1968 women's lib1969 1966 Berkeley (Calif.) Barb 6 May 10 The Berkeley ‘Movement’ designs, builds, sets, and springs a vicious trap on itself. 1970 T. Wolfe Radical Chic & Mau-mauing Flak Catchers 25 Another man gets up, a white named Gerald Lefcourt, who is chief counsel for the Panther 21, a young man with thick black hair and the muttonchops of the Movement. 1971 It 9 Sept. 11/5 I spent ten years in ‘the movement’. 1973 Maclean's Jan. 45/3 My editor in New York..began writing ‘Ms.’ on her letters to me..and the office was full of The Movement. 1994 R. Hellenga Sixteen Pleasures i. 7 I spent a lot of time buying coffee and doughnuts and rolling joints, and I spent some time on my back, too—the only position for a woman in the Movement. 2003 H. S. Thompson Kingdom of Fear ii. 81 This is what the bastards never understood—that the ‘Movement’ was essentially an expression of deep faith in the American Dream. < as lemmas |
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