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In contrast to the poets of The Movement whose traditional forms and conventional themes reigned from 1945-1960, a new popular poetry rode in with the 1960s, devised by poets who spoke to a mass audience, rather than an elite group. The demands of this audience, however, tended to impose consumerism rather than critical standards, and much of the poetry has aged like the fashion and slang of the era. The new poets who followed in the 1970s and...

The fifteen years following World War II are an identifiable period in the history of modern British poetry and have been covered in this DLB volume through 44 biographical profiles. While few poets of the period dealt directly and intelligently with the atrocities of the War, a group of poets known as The Movement emerged in the mid-1950s with a shared determination to avoid both the ideological extremes of the recent War and the emotional ex...