The Apocalypse Poets are a group of poets, mostly born in the middle or late 20th century (see the term "baby boomers") who wrote & lived in the atomic & nuclear age when weapons of annihilation brought about the constant fear of nuclear war & the possible scenario of the end of the world. Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the... A baby boomer is someone born in a period of increased birth rates, such as those during the economic prosperity following World War II. In the United States, demographers have put the generations birth years at 1946 to 1964, despite the fact that the U.S. birth rate (per... The Atomic Age was a phrase used for a time in the 1950s in which it was believed that all power sources in the future would be atomic in nature. ... Nuclear war, or atomic war, is war in which nuclear weapons are used. ...

See also: New Apocalyptics, of the 1940s. The New Apocalyptics were a poetry grouping in the UK 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. ...