The Group

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The Group was an informal circle of British poets from the 1950s and 1960s.

The Group was founded in Cambridge in 1952 on the initiative of Philip Hobsbaum as a literary working and discussion group that was influenced by FR Leavis and New Criticism . The meetings later took place at Edward Lucie-Smith's in London. In addition to Hobsbaum and Lucie-Smith, George MacBeth , Peter Redgrove , Alan Brownjohn , Peter Porter , Fleur Adcock and BS Johnson were regular participants.

Your poetry should be made for loud performance and should be more direct and energetic than that of the Movement , but at first it was still very similar in its clarity and reality-relatedness; it was only later that some poets struck sharper and satirical tones.

The Group Anthology appeared in 1963 with selected works by the group of poets. The Group was absorbed into Martin Bell's Writer’s Workshop in 1965 , and Hobsbaum continued his work with Seamus Heaney , Michael Longley and Derek Mahon in The Belfast Group . The Group's way of working has taken on a pioneering role in the English-language literature of the post-war period.

literature

  • Dominic Head (Ed.), The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English , Cambridge 2006.
  • Randall Stevenson, The Oxford English Literary History, Volume 12: 1960–2000, The Last of England? , Oxford 2006.
  • Jenny Stringer (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English , Oxford 1996.