What name did C.S. Lewis use for the literary group that met at Oxford?

C.S. Lewis called the Oxford literary group The Inklings.

The Inklings was an informal discussion group associated with the University of Oxford. It met mainly in Lewis’s rooms at Magdalen College and at the Eagle and Child pub, which members nicknamed the “Bird and Baby.” Participants read aloud from works in progress and discussed literature, theology, and ideas.

Lewis was one of the group’s central members. J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield, and Warren Lewis were among the people associated with it at different times. The group had no formal constitution, membership list, or publication program.

The Inklings should not be confused with a university society or a publishing house. Its importance comes from the creative exchange among friends: Tolkien developed parts of The Lord of the Rings in this environment, while Lewis shared drafts of fiction, criticism, and apologetic writing. The group continued in varying form until the early 1950s.