Editing New Apocalyptics (section)

{{short description|British poetry grouping in the 1940s}}
The '''New Apocalyptics''' were a poetry grouping in the United Kingdom in the 1940s, taking their name from the [[anthology]] ''The New Apocalypse'' ([[1939 in poetry|1939]]), which was edited by [[J. F. Hendry]] (1912–1986) and [[Henry Treece]]. There followed the further anthologies ''The White Horseman'' ([[1941 in poetry|1941]]) and ''The Crown and Sickle'' ([[1944 in poetry|1944]]).<ref>D. Davies ed., ''[[The Penguin Companion to Literature|The Penguin Companion to Literature I]]'' (1971) p. 22</ref>

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]].<ref>I. Ousby ed., ''The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English'' (1995) p. 674</ref>