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READ, Herbert Edward (born December 4, 1893 - died June 12, 1968)
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ADAMS, Matthew S., Kropotkin, Read, and the Intellectual History of British Anarchism : Between Reason and Romanticism
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READ, Herbert.- Bibliography
18 July 2015, by psRead, 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 (...)
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ANTLIFF, Allan. "Biocentrism and Anarchy: Herbert Read’s Modernism"
28 October 2013, by psIN Biocentrism and Modernism, Oliver Botar and Isabel Wunsche, eds. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2011, p. 153-160.
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ANTLIFF, Allan. "Open Form and the Abstract Imperative: Herbert Read and Contemporary Anarchist Art"
24 October 2013, by psAnarchist Studies Vo. 16 no. 1 (2008): 6-19.
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in Re-Reading Read: New Views on Herbert Read,
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ANTLIFF, Allan. "David Goodway Critiques Herbert Read"
20 October 2013, by psAnarchist Studies 19:1 (2011):
98-106.
The article discusses David Goodway’ comments on Herbert Read, presented as an anarchist inconsistent with his principles. -
ADAMS, Matthew S. "Art, Education, and Revolution: Herbert Read and the Reorientation of British Anarchism"
4 September 2013, by psHistory 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 (...) -
PARASKOS, Michael ed. Re-Reading Read: New Views on Herbert Read
3 May 2008, by psFreedom 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 (...) -
KLAUS, H. Gustav. "Genteel Anarchism: Herbert Read’s Poetry of Two Wars’
5 January 2008, by psLiterature & 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.