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The very first of a short-lived monthly series of British literary review journals, published from March 1925 to July 1927. Contributors to this edition include D.H. Lawrence, Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, Bertrand Russell and the founding editor, Edgell Rickword. 88 pp, paperback. Outside cover is fairly stained and foxed; overhanging edges are bumped and shelf-worn, but there is very little tearing or chipping. There is an ink inscription on the back cover. Inside page block has some foxing on exposed edges, but is otherwise clean and free of marks or annotation. Bare stitching threads inside back cover. Binding is still otherwise square and tight. "John Edgell Rickword MC (22nd October 1898 - 15th March 1982) was an English poet, critic, journalist and literary editor. He became one of the leading communist intellectuals active in the 1930s..." (~ quoted from Wikipedia) "The journal was known for its combativeness as an organ of informed criticism. Its regular 'Scrutinies', in which well-known authors and their work were submitted to often devastating critical enquiry, not only attracted the admiring attention of younger writers, but also led F. R. Leavis to adopt the name 'Scrutiny' for his own journal in 1932... Edgell Rickword was undoubtedly the journal's presiding genius..." "The Calendar of Modern Letters was a short-lived (1925-27) but vibrant literary review noted both for its exacting critical standards and for publishing new work by leading modern writers. It was founded and edited by the English poet-critic and decorated war-veteran Edgell Rickword (1898-1982), assisted by Douglas Garman and by the Australian poet Bertram Higgins, with financial backing from Garman's friend Ernest Wishart. All four were still in their twenties, their values allied to those of the literary war generation: Rickword, a minor war poet himself, had been befriended by Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon, both of whom contributed new poems to the Calendar's first number..." (~ quoted from Literary Encyclopedia)
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