New Apocalyptics

The New Apocalyptics were a poetry grouping in the United Kingdom in the 1940s, taking their name from the anthology The New Apocalypse (1939), which was edited by J. F. Hendry (1912–1986) and Henry Treece. There followed the further anthologies The White Horseman (1941) and The Crown and Sickle (1944).^[1]

Their reaction against the political realism of much of the Thirties poetry drew for support upon D. H. Lawrence (Apocalypse, 1931), surrealism, myth, and expressionism.^[2]

^ D. Davies ed., The Penguin Companion to Literature I (1971) p. 22
^ I. Ousby ed., The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (1995) p. 674

[1] D. Davies ed., The Penguin Companion to Literature I (1971) p. 22

[2] I. Ousby ed., The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (1995) p. 674

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