The Letchworth Settlement:  User Groups

There were several writers who had started their careers before the Second World War and who were still working creatively in the 1950s; but, more importantly, this decade was teeming with new writers. Novelists like David Storey, Iris Murdoch, Alan Sillitoe and Kingsley Amis, playwrights like John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney, Arnold Wesker and Harold Pinter and poets like Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin and R.S. Thomas were producing new, often startling, works which influenced writing for decades to come. How to combine such an abundance with detailed study within the compass of two terms will need thought.
Texts: almost certain ones are This Sporting Life, David Storey; The Bell, Iris Murdoch; A Taste of Honey, Shelagh Delaney; The Birthday Party, Harold Pinter. We will certainly read early in the first term Saturday Night, Sunday Morning, Alan Sillitoe. Poetry of the period will be supplied.