| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Encyclopedia of Literary Modernism |
| Editors | Paul POPLAWSKI |
| Place of Publication | Westport |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Pages | 25-26 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780313016578 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780313310171 |
| Publication status | Published - 30 Dec 2003 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Abstract
The "Bloomsbury group" was the name given to an informal network of twentieth- century writers and artists, who met regularly in the Bloomsbury district of London. The origins of the group can be traced to the turn of the century and a cir- cle of friends-Lytton Strachey, Desmond MacCarthy, Clive Bell, Leonard Woolf and Thoby Stephen (brother of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf)-who came under the influence of the moral philosopher, G. E. Moore, at Trinity College, Cam- bridge. According to Leonard Woolf, it was Moore's Socratic virtues of "clarity, integrity, tenacity and passion" and his ad- vocacy (in the oft-quoted remark from Moore's magnum opus Principia Ethica, 1903) of "the pleasures of human inter- course and the enjoyment of beautiful ob- jects," that led to the group's deification of personal relationships.