Editing The Movement (literature) (section)

== Representative collections ==
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". These 'bad principles' are usually described as "excess", both in terms of theme and stylistic devices. Poets in ''New Lines'' included Enright, Conquest, [[Kingsley Amis]], [[Donald Davie]], [[Thom Gunn]], [[John Holloway (poet)|John Holloway]], [[Elizabeth Jennings (poet)|Elizabeth Jennings]], [[Philip Larkin]] and [[John Wain]].

The polemical introduction to ''New Lines'' particularly targeted the 1940s poets and especially denounced the literary legacy of [[Dylan Thomas]], whom the Movement poets believed embodied, "everything they detested: verbal obscurity, metaphysical pretentiousness, and romantic rhapsodizing."<ref name=google2>{{cite book |last1=Lodge |first1=David |author-link=David Lodge (author) |title=Working with Structuralism: Essays and Reviews on Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature |url={{Google Books |plainurl=y |id=7LY9AAAAIAAJ |p=9}} |publisher=Routledge |date=1 January 1981 |page=9 |isbn=978-0-7100-0658-5 |quote=Dylan Thomas was made to stand for everything they detested: verbal obscurity, metaphysical pretentiousness, and romantic rhapsodizing}}</ref>

In 1963, a sequel to the original ''New Lines'' anthology, titled ''New Lines 2'', was published. It included many of the authors from the original anthology, as well as younger English poets like [[Thomas Blackburn (poet)|Thomas Blackburn]], [[Edwin Brock]], [[Hilary Corke]], [[John Fuller (poet)|John Fuller]], [[Ted Hughes]], [[Edward Lucie-Smith]], [[Anthony Thwaite]] and [[Hugo Williams]].