Auden Group

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The Auden Group was a circle of 1930s British writers and poets, centered around W. H. Auden, known for their left-leaning politics, modernist style, and engagement with the social and political crises of their time.

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Auden Group canonical 5

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Predicate Object
instanceOf group of writers
literary circle
activeInDecade 1930s
associatedWith British left-wing politics
Cambridge literary circles
Oxford poets
associatedWithEvent Spanish Civil War
country United Kingdom
genre poetry
prose
hasCentralFigure W. H. Auden
hasMember Cecil Day-Lewis
Christopher Isherwood
Edward Upward
John Lehmann
Julian Bell
Louis MacNeice
MacNeice–Day-Lewis circle
Rex Warner
Stephen Spender
W. H. Auden
hasTheme class conflict
individual and society
moral responsibility
political commitment
social justice
war and violence
historicalContext Great Depression
rise of totalitarian regimes in Europe
influenced mid-20th-century British poetry
political poetry in English
influencedBy European modernism
Freudian psychoanalysis
Marxism
language English
literaryPeriod interwar period
literaryStyle formal experimentation
ironic tone
use of everyday speech
movement modernism
namedAfter W. H. Auden
notableFor engagement with social and political crises of the 1930s
politically engaged poetry
response to economic depression
response to rise of fascism in Europe
response to threat of war
use of modernist techniques
politicalOrientation left-wing
socialist-leaning
timePeriod between World War I and World War II

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W. H. Auden movement Auden Group
Louis MacNeice memberOf Auden Group
Louis MacNeice movement Auden Group
The Orators literaryMovement Auden Group
Cecil Day-Lewis movement Auden Group