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The Movement produced two anthologies, Poets of the 1950s (edited by D. J. Enright, published in Japan, 1955) and New Lines (edited by Robert Conquest, 1956).Conquest, who edited the New Lines anthology, described the connection between the poets as "little more than a negative determination to avoid bad principles".
Poetry groups and movements or schools may be self-identified by the poets that form them or defined by critics who see unifying characteristics of a body of work by more than one poet. To be a 'school' a group of poets must share a common style or a common ethos.
Literary movements are a way to divide literature into categories of similar philosophical, topical, or aesthetic features, as opposed to divisions by genre or period. Like other categorizations, literary movements provide language for comparing and discussing literary works.
New Formalism is a late 20th- and early 21st-century movement in American poetry that has promoted a return to metrical, rhymed verse and narrative poetry on the grounds that all three are necessary if American poetry is to compete with novels and regain its former popularity among the American people.
The expatriate American poet Ezra Pound in 1913; Pound collected poems from eleven poets in his first anthology of Imagist poetry, Des Imagistes, published in 1914. Imagism was a movement in early-20th-century poetry that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language.
Although Kerouac introduced the phrase "Beat Generation" in 1948 to characterize a perceived underground, anti-conformist youth movement in New York, fellow poet Herbert Huncke is credited with first using the word "beat". [7] The name arose in a conversation with writer John Clellon Holmes. Kerouac allows that it was Huncke, a street hustler ...
Movement 2: Jog in place—can change to jogging with high knees for the second half of the verse, until the second “1,2,3,4.” Movement 3: Fast feet: drop lower into an athletic stance with ...
Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891), French symbolist poet of Decadent movement; Alberto Ríos (born 1952), US poet and professor; Khawar Rizvi (1938–1981), Pakistani poet and scholar in Urdu and Persian; Emma Roberts (1794–1840), English travel writer and poet; Michael Roberts (1902–1948), English poet, writer and editor