The Movement

The Movement may refer to:

Politics

Other culture

Music

Albums

See also

The Movement (literature)

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. The Movement was essentially English in character, as poets from other parts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland were not actively involved.

Description

Although considered a literary group, members of The Movement saw themselves more as an actual movement, with each writer sharing a common purpose.

The Movement poets were considered anti-romantic, but Larkin and Hughes featured romantic elements. To these poets, good poetry meant simple, sensuous content and traditional, conventional and dignified form.

The Movement's importance is its worldview that took into account Britain’s reduced dominance in world politics. The group's objective was to prove the importance of English poetry over the new modernist poetry. The members of The Movement were not anti-modernists; they were opposed to modernism, which was reflected in the Englishness of their poetry.

The Movement (comics)

The Movement was an ongoing comic book series published by DC Comics, written by Gail Simone and illustrated by Freddie Williams II. The series takes place within the DC Universe as part of The New 52. It focuses on a group of teenagers, known as The Movement or Channel M, who use their superpowers to fight the corruption in Coral City.

Publication history

The Movement was first announced on February 8, 2013, alongside its sister book The Green Team. Simone notes a connection between the two books "almost from the very start. And it's fair to say the two groups won't exactly see eye to eye."

When announcing The Movement and The Green Team, DC Comics released a promotional image which read, "Meet the 99%… They were the super-powered disenfranchised—now they’re the voice of the people!" However, Simone clarified The Movement is not based solely on the Occupy Movement. She plans to incorporate elements of all social movements of recent years. Simone describes the title as "a book about power – who owns it, who uses it, who suffers from its abuse", and sees the book as Teen Titans or X-Men for a modern audience of young readers.