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TheOxford Wits, a term coined later, were an identifiable group of literary and intellectualaesthetes anddandies, present as undergraduates at theUniversity of Oxford inEngland in the first half of the 1920s.

Their leader in fashion wasHarold Acton, but their later leader in intellectual matters was more noticeablyMaurice Bowra. Their attitudes were those portrayed and parodied in the nostalgicBrideshead Revisited ofEvelyn Waugh, the most important literary figure to emerge from the group.

Others who are cited as Oxford Wits areJohn Betjeman,Robert Byron,Cyril Connolly,Brian Howard,Alan Pryce-Jones,John Sparrow,John Sutro, andChristopher Sykes.^[1]

• New Oxford Wits

• Martin Green,Children of the Sun: A Narrative of "Decadence" in England After 1918 (1976).

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