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Sir Herbert Edward Read fonds
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1917 - 1994 (Creation)
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4 m of textual records
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Sir Herbert Edward Read was a poet, art critic and champion of modern art in Britain. He produced approximately 1,150 titles on a broad range of topics. His 80 monographs include: 26 on art and artists; 14 on literary criticism; 13 collections of poetry; 10 on politics, primarily on anarchism; 7 on "belles lettres" and biography; 5 on education, most notably "Education Through Art"; and 5 autobiographies.
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The fonds consists primarily of correspondence with many individuals, including Richard Aldington, Wilfred R. Childe, Alex Comfort, Edward Dahlberg, Bonamy and Valentine Dobree, T. S. Eliot, Naum Gabo, Rayner Heppenstall, Barbara Hepworth, David Jones, Jacob Kramer, Percy Wyndham Lewis, Henry Miller, Henry Moore, Frank Morley, Edwin Muir, Ben Nicholson, Alfred R. Orage, George Orwell, Robert Payne, Kathleen Raine, Stephen Spender, Adrian Stokes, Allen Tate, Arthur W. Wheen, George Woodcock and Wilhelm Worringer. Also included are notebooks, worksheets, proofs and mimeographed BBC programs; mostly from the 1950s and 1960s.
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- Dobree, Valentine (Subject)
- Woodcock, George, 1912-1995 (Subject)
- Aldington, Richard, 1892-1962 (Subject)
- Childe, Wilfred Rowland, 1890-1952 (Subject)
- Comfort, Alex, 1920-2000 (Subject)
- Dahlberg, Edward, 1900-1977 (Subject)
- Dobree, Bonamy, 1891-1974 (Subject)
- Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 (Subject)
- Gabo, Naum, 1890-1977 (Subject)
- Heppenstall, Rayner, 1911-1981 (Subject)
- Hepworth, Barbara, Dame, 1903-1975 (Subject)
- Jones, David, 1895-1974 (Subject)
- Kramer, Jacob, 1892-1962 (Subject)
- Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957 (Subject)
- Miller, Henry, 1891-1980 (Subject)
- Moore, Henry, 1898-1986 (Subject)
- Morley, F. V. (Frank Vigor), 1899-1980 (Subject)
- Muir, Edwin, 1887-1959 (Subject)
- Nicholson, Ben, 1894-1982 (Subject)
- Orage, A. R. (Alfred Richard), 1873-1934 (Subject)
- Raine, Kathleen, 1908-2003 (Subject)
- Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995 (Subject)
- Stokes, Adrian Durham, 1902-1972 (Subject)
- Tate, Allen, 1899-1979 (Subject)
- Wheen, A. W. (Arthur Wesley), 1897-1971 (Subject)
- Worringer, Wilhelm, 1881-1965 (Subject)
- Ackerley, J. R. (Joe Randolph), 1896-1967 (Subject)
- Ackroyd, Graham (Subject)
- Belgion, Montgomery, 1892-1973 (Subject)
- Berger, John (Subject)
- Berry, Francis (Subject)
- Bowes-Lyon, Lilian Helen, 1895-1949 (Subject)
- Breton, Andre, 1896-1966 (Subject)
- British Council (Subject)
- Church, Richard, 1893-1972 (Subject)
- Clarke, Fred, 1880-1952 (Subject)
- Coghill, Nevill, 1899-1980 (Subject)
- Connolly, Cyril, 1903-1974 (Subject)
- Cooper, Douglas, 1911-1984 (Subject)
- Day Lewis, C. (Cecil), 1904-1972 (Subject)
- De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956 (Subject)
- Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes), 1862-1932 (Subject)
- Ehrenzweig, Anton, 1908-1966 (Subject)
- Eluard, Paul, 1895-1952 (Subject)
- Erni, Hans, 1909-2015 (Subject)
- Faber and Faber (Subject)
- Finlay, Ian Hamilton (Subject)
- Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939 (Subject)
- Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970 (Subject)
- Freedom Defence Committee (Subject)
- Freedom Press (London, England) (Subject)
- Fry, Roger, 1866-1934 (Subject)
- Gawsworth, John, 1912-1970 (Subject)
- Gill, Eric, 1882-1940 (Subject)
- Gollancz, Victor, 1893-1967 (Subject)
- Graves, Robert, 1895-1985 (Subject)
- Greene, Graham, 1904-1991 (Subject)
- Griffith, Llewelyn Wyn, 1890-1977 (Subject)
- Grigson, Geoffrey, 1905-1985 (Subject)
- Grohmann, Will, 1887-1968 (Subject)
- Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969 (Subject)
- Guggenheim, Peggy, 1898-1979 (Subject)
- Hamburger, Michael (Subject)
- Hanley, James, 1901-1985 (Subject)
- Hargreaves, Geoffrey, 1938- (Subject)
- Hausermann, Hans Walter, 1902- (Subject)
- Hayward, John, 1905-1965 (Subject)
- Helion, Jean, 1904-1987 (Subject)
- Horovitz, Michael, 1935- (Subject)
- Housman, A. E. (Alfred Edward), 1859-1936 (Subject)
- Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998 (Subject)
- Hull, Richard, 1896-1973 (Subject)
- Huxley, Julian, 1887-1975 (Subject)
- Jameson, Storm, 1891-1986 (Subject)
- John, Augustus, 1878-1961 (Subject)
- Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961 (Subject)
- Kandinsky, Wassily, 1866-1944 (Subject)
- Keel, John Siegfried (Subject)
- Knight, G. Wilson (George Wilson), 1897-1985 (Subject)
- Koestler, Arthur, 1905-1983 (Subject)
- Kokoschka, Oskar, 1886-1980 (Subject)
- Lanyon, Peter, 1918-1964 (Subject)
- Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888-1935 (Subject)
- Lea, F. A. (Frank Alfred), 1915-1977 (Subject)
- Leavis, F. R. (Frank Raymond), 1895-1978 (Subject)
- Lehmann, John, 1907-1987 (Subject)
- Macaulay, Rose, Dame (Subject)
- MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978 (Subject)
- Man Ray, 1890-1976 (Subject)
- Mannin, Ethel, 1900-1984 (Subject)
- Manning, Hugo (Subject)
- Mathieu, Georges, 1921-2012 (Subject)
- Miro, Joan, 1893-1983 (Subject)
- Mitchison, Naomi, 1897-1999 (Subject)
- Monro, Alida Klemantaski (Subject)
- Monro, Harold, 1879-1932 (Subject)
- Murry, John Middleton, 1889-1957 (Subject)
- Neumeyer, Alfred, 1901-1973 (Subject)
- Newsom, John, 1910-1971 (Subject)
- O'Connor, Philip, 1916-1998 (Subject)
- O'Gorman, Ned, 1929-2014 (Subject)
- Orwell, George, 1903-1950 (Subject)
- Payne, Robert, 1911-1983 (Subject)
- Piper, John, 1903-1992 (Subject)
- Porteus, Hugh Gordon (Subject)
- Pound, Dorothy (Subject)
- Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 (Subject)
- Prince, F. T. (Frank Templeton), 1912-2003 (Subject)
- Randall, Alec, b. 1892 (Subject)
- Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982 (Subject)
- Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970 (Subject)
- Russell, Peter, 1921-2003 (Subject)
- Sackville-West, Edward, 1901-1965 (Subject)
- Sadler, Michael, Sir, 1861-1943 (Subject)
- Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967 (Subject)
- Sickert, Walter, 1860-1942 (Subject)
- Sitwell, Osbert, 1892-1969 (Subject)
- Sitwell, Sacheverell, 1897-1988 (Subject)
- Skelton, Robin, 1925-1997 (Subject)
- Spark, Muriel (Subject)
- Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971 (Subject)
- Sutherland, Graham Vivian, 1903-1980 (Subject)
- Symons, Julian, 1912-1994 (Subject)
- Tambimuttu, 1915-1983 (Subject)
- Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953 (Subject)
- Treece, Henry, 1911-1966 (Subject)
- Watkins, Vernon Phillips, 1906-1967 (Subject)
- Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946 (Subject)
- Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 (Subject)
- Wilson, Colin, 1931-2013 (Subject)
- Woolf, Leonard, 1880-1969 (Subject)
- Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 (Subject)
- Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 (Subject)
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Revised by JF, August 9, 2013.
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- English
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