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Group of poets with half of Dante’s inspiration and creation (4,10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

beat generation

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'group' is the definition.
The answer is an example.

'of poets with half of dante's inspiration and creation' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'of' could be 'o' and 'o' is found in the answer.
'and' could be 'n' (common abbreviation for 'and') and 'n' is present in the answer.
'creation' could be 'beat' (beat is a kind of creation) and 'beat' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for beat generation that I've seen before include "Disaffected youths" , "movement in the 1950s" , "movement of the young" , "US writers" , "use drum and bass for this?" .)

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