15 OCTOBER 1954, page 14

Letters To The Editor

IN THE MOVEMENT SIR, —I think Mr. Hartley and the author of the first literary leading article (Autumn Books Number) are both mistaken about The Movement: the poetry of Mr.......

Sir, —while I Sympathise Deeply With The Suspicious...

Waugh, Mr. Came- Ross, Mr. Thwaite, and Mr. Brownjohn towards ' groupism ' in either creative writing or literary criticism, I also think that any practising literary critic......

Sir,—it Is Pleasant To See The New Move- Ment' Being

regarded as something more than a troupe of intellectual acrobats joined together for the purpose of annoying Mr. Stephen Spender. For myself, I see the new people as......

Sir, —mr. Evelyn Waugh Remarks That Your Leader Writer...

doubt seeking to do a service to young writers by associating them with a ' Movement,' and asks whether this is helpful. I do not know whether this was the intention—or one of......