Although many newspaper articles and a few books appeared about the "Auden Group", the existence of the group was essentially a journalistic myth, a convenient label for poets and novelists who were approximately the same age, who had been educated at Oxford and Cambridge, who had known each other at different times, and had more or less left-wing views ranging from MacNeice's political scepticism to Upward's committed communism.
I keď viaceré novinové články a niektoré knihy publikovali o "Auden Group", jej existencia bola žurnalistický mýtus, vhodná nálepka pre básnikov a románopiscov, ktorí boli približne v rovnakom veku, ktorí mali vzdelanie z Oxfordu a Cambridgu, ktorí sa poznali medzi sebou a mali viac alebo menej politické názory od MacNeiceho politického skepticizmu až po Upwardov komunizmus.