Mark Hussey
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748642274
- eISBN:
- 9780748651979
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748642274.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter takes a look at Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press's sponsorship of the unconventional writing of child poet Joan Easdale, noting that this sponsorship was made despite opposition from ...
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This chapter takes a look at Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press's sponsorship of the unconventional writing of child poet Joan Easdale, noting that this sponsorship was made despite opposition from John Lehmann. It examines a network composed of Easdale, Stevie Smith, Naomi Mitchison and Woolf, against that of ‘W.H. Day Spender’. The chapter also reveals the story behind Easdale's appearance at the Hogarth Press, introduces the concept of ‘thirties poetry’, and also shows how the Hogarth Press represented a relevant site of encounter for a number of schools of poetry during the 1920s and 30s.Less
This chapter takes a look at Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press's sponsorship of the unconventional writing of child poet Joan Easdale, noting that this sponsorship was made despite opposition from John Lehmann. It examines a network composed of Easdale, Stevie Smith, Naomi Mitchison and Woolf, against that of ‘W.H. Day Spender’. The chapter also reveals the story behind Easdale's appearance at the Hogarth Press, introduces the concept of ‘thirties poetry’, and also shows how the Hogarth Press represented a relevant site of encounter for a number of schools of poetry during the 1920s and 30s.
Helen Southworth
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748642274
- eISBN:
- 9780748651979
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748642274.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
Combining literary criticism, book history, biography and sociology, this book weaves together the stories of the lesser known authors, artists and press workers with the canonical names linked to ...
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Combining literary criticism, book history, biography and sociology, this book weaves together the stories of the lesser known authors, artists and press workers with the canonical names linked to the Hogarth Press. Using previously unpublished archived material, it presents case studies on West Indian writer C.L.R. James, Welsh poet Huw Menai, child poet Joan Easdale and American artist E. McKnight Kauffer; and studies the topics of imperialism, the middlebrow, religion, translation, the marketplace and poetry, which dominated the era of their work.Less
Combining literary criticism, book history, biography and sociology, this book weaves together the stories of the lesser known authors, artists and press workers with the canonical names linked to the Hogarth Press. Using previously unpublished archived material, it presents case studies on West Indian writer C.L.R. James, Welsh poet Huw Menai, child poet Joan Easdale and American artist E. McKnight Kauffer; and studies the topics of imperialism, the middlebrow, religion, translation, the marketplace and poetry, which dominated the era of their work.
