The Group (literature)

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

The Group was formed in 1952 in Cambridge, at the initiative of Philip Hobsbaum as a literary work and discussion group that was influenced by FR Leavis and the New Criticism. Later, the meetings were held at Edward Lucie- Smith in London. Besides Hobsbaum and Lucie- Smith were George MacBeth, Peter Redgrove, Alan Brownjohn, Peter Porter, Fleur Adcock and BS Johnson regular participants.

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In 1963, The Group Anthology appeared with selected works from the group of poets. The Group was formed in 1965 in Martin Bell's Writer's Workshop, Hobsbaum continued his work with Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and Derek Mahon in The Belfast Group continued. The Group thus decreases with the way they work on a pioneering role in the English literature of the postwar period.