READ, Herbert Edward (born December 4, 1893 - died June 12, 1968)

New York: Pallgrave, Macmillan, 2015. 253 p+x

Read, Herbert Edward, Songs of Chaos. London: Elkin Mathews, 1915. "The World and the Guild Idea". The Guildsman No. 5, April 1917, and No. 6, May 1917. "Definitions Towards a Modern Theory of Poetry." Art and Letters. vol.1, no. 3, pp. 73-8. January 1918. Naked Warriors. London: Art & Letters, 1919. Auguries of Life and Death. privately published, 1919. Eclogues: A Book of Poems. London: C.W. Beaumont, 1919. "Review of Russell’s ’Analysis of Mind’. The New Age, vol. 24, no. 18, September (...)

IN Biocentrism and Modernism, Oliver Botar and Isabel Wunsche, eds. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2011, p. 153-160.

Anarchist Studies Vo. 16 no. 1 (2008): 6-19.
Reprint :
in Re-Reading Read: New Views on Herbert Read,
Michael Paraskos, ed. London: Freedom Press (2008): 33-43.

Anarchist Studies 19:1 (2011):
98-106.
The article discusses David Goodway’ comments on Herbert Read, presented as an anarchist inconsistent with his principles.

History of European Ideas Summary
It is popularly believed that British anarchism underwent a ‘renaissance’ in the 1960s, as conventional revolutionary tactics were replaced by an ethos of permanent protest. Often associated with Colin Ward and his journal Anarchy, this tactical shift is said to have occurred due to growing awareness of Gustav Landauer’s work. This article challenges these readings by focusing on Herbert Read’s book Education through Art, a work motivated by Read’s (...)

Freedom Press, London, 2008.ISBN-13: 978-190449-1088 (paperback). 240 pages, full colour throughout with numerous illustrations of artworks of many of the artists Read supported.
Publisher’s description
From poverty and a Yorkshire orphanage, Herbert Read went on to become the most significant cultural critic to come out of England in the twentieth century.
Between 1940 and 1960 he was the most well-respected writer on modernist art in the English language, effectively defining the (...)

Literature & History (Spring 2007) Vol. 16 Issue 1, p. 59-134.
Contests Herbert Read’s assertion that he was an all-time anarchist. Considers that this conviction started with the Spanish Civil War. Examines the trench poems published in Naked Warriors (1919) and also, in detail, "Lament for Spain" in the context of the Spanish Civil War poetry.