New Apocalypse, the
New Apocalypse, the,a group of writers who flourished briefly as a movement in the 1940s, united by a romantic reaction against what they saw as the ‘classicism’ of Auden ; it expressed itself in wild, turbulent, and at times surreal imagery. Their work appeared in three anthologies, The New Apocalypse: An Anthology of Criticism, Poems and Stories ( 1940 ), edited by James Findlay Hendry ( 1912 – ); The White Horseman: Prose and Verse of the New Apocalypse ( 1941 ), edited by Hendry and Henry Treece ( 1911 – 66 ), with an introduction by George Sutherland Fraser ( 1915 – 80 ), and The Crown and the Sickle ( 1945 ), also edited by Hendry and Treece. They described themselves as ‘anti-cerebral’, claimed a ‘large, accepting attitude to life’, invoked the name of D. H. Lawrence , and approved of Dylan Thomas ; G. Barker and V. Watkins also were associated with the...
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