[1] It was crucial in the development of Romanticism in Hungarian literature, and in establishing Pest as a literary centre.
Hungarian writers who travelled abroad to cultivate links with German and English literati could point to Aurora as evidence of the existence of a new and vital literary culture which would transcend the neoclassicism of elder figures like Ferenc Kazinczy.
Its social role was taken by a new magazine, the Athenaeum (1837–43), edited by Bajza and Vörösmarty and appearing twice or thrice a week.
The main members of the Aurora circle were Károly Kisfaludy, József Bajza, Ferenc Toldy, and Mihály Vörösmarty.
The circle's influence was limited in the 1840s and after the failure of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 they ceased to be literary leaders in Hungary.