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The Movement was a literary group in Britain during the 1950s that aimed to bring poetry back to more traditional, structured forms and away from the modernist experimentation that had dominated earlier in the century, the Movement was characterized by its formalism, clarity, and anti-romantic stance,

The main poets associated with the Movement were Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Donald Davie, Thom Gunn, Elizabeth Jennings, and John Wain.

Charles Kingsley: He was a 19th-century writer and clergyman, best known for his novels such as "The Water-Babies" and his support of social reform. He was not associated with the Movement Poetry of the 1950s, as he lived in a completely different era.