Philip Hobsbaum (born 29 June 1932) is an academic, poet and critic. He is known principally as the instigator of The Group — in fact, several incarnations or groups in Cambridge, London, Belfast, and Glasgow — a type of poets' workshop. The name in some sense alludes to The Movement grouping of poets, and makes possible reference to a role as a successor. In reality The Group was something quite different, an exercise in practical criticism and mutual support, where the Movement had little tangible, public existence. There was some slight overlap between the two June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 185 days remaining. ... 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... This article is about a specific literary movement - for other literary movements see Art movement The Movement was a term coined by J. D. Scott, literary editor of the Spectator, in 1954 to describe a group of writers including Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, Donald Alfred Davie, D.J. Enright, John...

Hobsbaum was born in London, into a Jewish family, and brought up in Yorkshire. He read English at Downing College, Cambridge, where he was taught by F. R. Leavis. He was in London teaching from 1955 to 1959, at which time The Group proper was active. He went in 1959 to Sheffield University to do doctoral research, under William Empson; the London Group continued until 1965, chaired by Edward Lucie-Smith. The word Jew (Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... Yorkshire as a traditional county. ... Full name Downing College Motto Quaerere Verum Seek the truth Named after Sir George Downing Previous names - Established 1800 Sister College Lincoln College Master Prof. ... Frank Raymond Leavis (1895-1978) was an influential British literary critic of the early-to-mid-twentieth century. ... University of Sheffield Rerum Cognoscere Causas (To discover the causes of things) Shield image © University of Sheffield The University of Sheffield is a university located in Sheffield, England. ... William Empson Sir William Empson (1906-1984) was an English poet and literary critic. ...

From 1962 to 1966 he had an academic position at Queen's University, Belfast. At this time he met and helped to support the emerging poets John Bond, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon and Stewart Parker. The Queens University of Belfast Queens University, Belfast (QUB) - or officially The Queens University of Belfast - is a university in Belfast, Northern Ireland. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Seamus Heaney (b. ...

In 1966 he moved to the University of Glasgow, becoming a Professor there in 1985. The University of Glasgow is the largest of the three universities in Glasgow, Scotland. ...

Works

• A Group Anthology (1963) editor with Edward Lucie-Smith
• The Place's Fault (1964) poems
• Snapshots (1965)
• In Retreat (1966) poems
• Coming Out Fighting (1969) poems
• A Theory of Communication (1970)
• Women and Animals (1972) poems
• A Reader's Guide To Charles Dickens (1972)
• Tradition and Experiment in English Poetry (1979)
• A Reader's Guide to D H Lawrence (1981)
• Essentials Of Literary Criticism (1983)
• A Reader's Guide to Robert Lowell (1988)
• William Wordsworth: Selected Poetry & Prose (1989) editor
• Metre, Rhythm And Verse Form (1995)