meet until 1975, and unlike the previous groups developed a more pronounced focus on prose than on poetry. As an encore, Hobsbaum was instrumental in setting up, in 1995, the successful MLitt in creative writing at the University of Glasgow. Work Though he was a poet as well, it was as a critic that Hobsbaum was best known. And though as one of his obituarists noted, "[h]e was famously not a man who felt a pressing need to endear himself to students", he was a charismatic teacher, and fiercely committed to those with a commitment to literature. The dedication of Alasdair Gray's The Book of Prefaces is "to Philip Hobsbaum poet, critic and servant of servants of art". Seamus Heaney also dedicated the poem "Blackberry-Picking" (from Death of a Naturalist, 1966) to Philip Hobsbaum. Poetry A Group Anthology (Oxford UP, 1963), edited with Edward Lucie-Smith The Place's Fault, and other poems (Macmillan, 1964) Snapshots (Belfast: Festival Publications, 1967) In Retreat and Other Poems (Macmillan, 1966) Coming Out Fighting (Macmillan, 1969) Women and Animals (Macmillan, 1972) The Pattern of Poetry (1962) Criticism and other academic writing Ten Elizabethan Poets (Longmans, 1969), editor A Theory of Communication (Macmillan, 1970), in US as Theory of Criticism (Indiana UP, 1970) A Reader's Guide To Charles Dickens (Thames and Hudson, 1972) Tradition and Experiment in English Poetry (Macmillan, 1979) A Reader's Guide to D H Lawrence (Thames and Hudson, 1981) Essentials Of Literary Criticism (Thames and Hudson, 1983) A Reader's Guide to Robert Lowell (Thames and Hudson, 1988) William Wordsworth: Selected Poetry and Prose (Routledge, 1989), editor Channels of Communication: Papers from the Conference of Higher Education Teachers of English (Dept Eng Lit, University of Glasgow, 1992), edited by Hobsbaum, Paddy Lyons, and Jim McGhee Metre, Rhythm And Verse Form (Routledge, 1996) Entries in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography for Peter Alexander, William Burnaby, Richard Thomas Church, Everard Guilpin, Alfred Noyes, (James) Stewart Parker, and William Stewart Rose (2004). References Further reading In 2002, the Scottish-American poetry magazine The Dark Horse printed an interview with him, in which he discussed his biography and work. Hobsbaum/Group correspondence archive at University of Texas at Austin Belfast Creative Writing Group files at Queen's University Belfast Obituaries Obituaries appeared in a number of publications on both sides of the Atlantic: New York Times Other obituaries (not online) appeared in the Herald, Scotsman, Jewish Chronicle and Independent. External links