Editing The Movement (literature) (section)

== Description ==
Although considered a literary group, members of the Movement saw themselves more as an actual [[literary movement]], with each writer sharing a common purpose.<ref name="google1">{{cite book |first1=Laura |last1=Marcus |first2=Peter |last2=Nicholls |title=The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature |url={{Google Books |plainurl=y |id=UUInSV7keEUC|pg=399}} |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |year=2004 |pages=399– |isbn=978-0-521-82077-6}}</ref> To these poets, good poetry meant simple, sensuous content and traditional, conventional and dignified form.{{citation needed|date=September 2015}}

The Movement's importance includes its worldview, which took into account the collapse of the [[British Empire]] and the [[United Kingdom]]'s drastically reduced power and influence over world geo-politics. The group's objective was to prove the importance of traditional [[English poetry]], over the American-led innovations of [[modernist poetry]]. The members of the Movement were not anti-modernity but they were opposed to [[modernist literature]], which was reflected in the Englishness of their poetry.<ref name="google1"/>

The Movement sparked the divisions among different types of British poetry. Their poems were nostalgic for an older England and filled with rural images of the decaying way of life in the villages as the [[English people]] moved away from the countryside and into urban ghettoization.<ref name="google1" />