The Apollo Group (1932-4) (Ar. Jamāʿat Apollo) was an important literary movement, which produced the journal Apollo . The precursors of romanticism in modern Arabic culture are numerous, but the most significant among them is Khalīl Muṭrān (1872-1949), who called for individualism in poetic expression: the poet was seen as an individual creator endowed with a special talent and sensibility, capable of interacting with nature and the universe, and, more importantly, aware of the unity of the poem as an organic structure. Like Muṭrān, the so-called Dīwān Group,