Philip Hobsbaum

Philip Hobsbaum, poet, critic, and teacher, was born in London June 29, 1932. He attended Downing College at Cambridge, studying with F.R. Leavis. Around 1955 he began a series of writing workshops, later known as "The Group," that met in Cambridge, London, Belfast, and Glasgow. In 1959 Hobsbaum began work on a graduate degree at Sheffield University under the direction of William Empson. From 1962 to 1966 he taught at Queens University in Belfast, resigning due to the rising violence in North Ireland and the breakup of his marriage to Hannah Kelly. Hobsbaum spent the remainder of his teaching career at the University of Glasgow. From 1966 to 1985 he was a lecturer and reader before being promoted to Professor of English Literature in 1985. He married his second wife Rosemary Philips in 1976. In addition to his teaching and writing duties, Hobsbaum began the masters program in creative writing at the University of Glasgow. He retired from teaching in 1997. He has four published collections of poetry: The Place's Fault (1964), In Retreat (1966), Coming Out Fighting (1969), and Women and Animals (1972). Hobsbaum has also published two works of literary criticism. (Philip Hobsbaum collection, 1962-1971)

“Dead end,” “Derry city,” “The riding-mistress,” “A false martyr,” “Undergraduate party,” “Stout person’s meditation on sex,” “Cock of the walk,” no date, two pages.

Source: Belfast Creative Writing Group 1963-6.
“In Retreat,” no date, three pages.

Source: Belfast Creative Writing Group 1963-6.
“K.1,” no date, five pages.

Source: Belfast Creative Writing Group 1963-6.
“Study in a minor key,” no date, six pages.

Source: Belfast Creative Writing Group 1963-6.

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Hannah Hobsbaum - spouse
William Empson - colleague
F.R. Leavis - colleague
Seamus Heaney - knows
Michael Longley - knows

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University of Glasgow - worksFor
Queens University, Belfast - worksFor
Sheffield University - worksFor
Downing College - alumniOf
gatherings of writers known simply as "the group." - affiliation