The Movement was a term coined by J. D. Scott, literary editor of the
Spectator, in 1954 to describe a group of writers including
Kingsley Amis,
Philip Larkin,
Donald Alfred Davie, Enright, Wain, E. Jennings and Conquest. The Movement produced two anthologies:
Poets of the 1950s (1955) and
New Lines (1956). Their tone is anti-romantic and rational.