"Critical labels, or some critical labels at least, have meanings and histories that cannot be overwritten by the herding instinct of the press-release. Yet if the literary movement is a community of sorts (‘A literary movement’, said AE, ‘consists of five or six authors who live in the same town and hate each other cordially’), a more developed theory of its dynamics ought to be among [Fiona] Sampson’s priorities. Critics study, but need not succumb, to groupthink. Beyond the Lyric has problems resisting the temptation." David Wheatley • Tower Poetry

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