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Lyric Poetry as Self-Possession: Philip Larkin

The Less Deceived was Philip Larkin's first major collection of poems. Published in 1955, it was immediately identified with the aims and values of 'the Movement'; indeed, Edward Lucie-Smith has described its arrival as 'the signal for the Movement to begin.' Like the term 'Movement' itself, Lucie-Smith's tone here suggests a programmatic precision more characteristic of military manoeuvres than of literary events. These connotations suit the poetics as well as the often combative dialectics of the Movement, for they emphasize the importance of conscious, directed effort in a world where fact rather than fiction is supreme. Writing is to be regarded as hard work, not as possession or obsession, and the goal is 'a poetry of urbane and momentous statement.' The formulator of this goal, Donald Davie, has looked back on the Movement and recognized that 'what we all shared ... was a hatred for writing considered as self-expression.' The Movement thus fostered a creative approach that paralleled the new critica...