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...Augustan elegance of The Movement has been challenged in recent years by a hearty, animalistic poet named Ted Hughes, and by the "Teddy-bards" who call themselves The Group (Philip Hobsbaum, Edward Lucie-Smith, George Macbeth, Peter Porter, Peter Redgrove) and declare their dedication to a more accidental poetry, "straggly, diffuse, full of not obviously related particulars, beginning anyhow and seeming to end when the poet becomes naturally tired." Typically, The Group writes about a giggling secretary with "beard-rash that twinkles on my thighs," about an executive with breath "rank and vicious, like menstrual blood," about teeth full...
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