A Collection of New Verse (A Journal of Prose and Literary Criticism) (28 volumes)

Geoffrey Grigson (Editor); Allen Tate; Theodore Spencer; W.H. Auden; Horace Gregory; Edwin Muir; Herbert Read; Rainer Maria Rilke; Dylan Thomas; Martin Boldero; T.S. Eliot; Pablo Neruda;

Billing and Songs Ltd., 1933

[28 volume set from the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey.] Printed 1933 - 1938. Softcover. Shelf wear. One volume (March 1938) with loose wraps. Includes Auden Double Number. 

New Verse was a British literary magazine founded by Hugh Ross Williamson (1901-1978) and Geoffrey Grigson (1905-1985). Essentially Grigson's hobbyhorse, this little magazine would become an influential player in London's literary and publishing circles during the 1930s, with the young editor serving as chief publisher and curator for the entirety of New Verse's six-year run. 

Interesting works in this collection include: The Meaning of  Life by Allen Tate; Poetry in America, A Survey by Horace Gregory; The Brown Book of the Hitler Terror by Herbert Read; Orpheus Eurydice Hermes by Rainer Maria Rilke; The Hours of the Planets by Charles Madge; Scenery of Anger by Glyn Jones; The Solid Sea by Martin Boldero; The Graves at Harpenden and Scene by Lawrence Little; Audiences, Producers, Plays, Poets by T.S. Eliot; To a Writer on his Birthday by W.H. Auden; Poem in Three Parts by Dylan Thomas; Walking Around by Pablo Neruda; In Memoriam T.S.E. by Charles Madge. 

Contents: March 1933, No. 2; May 1933, No. 3; July 1933, No. 4; Oct. 1933, No. 5; Dec. 1933, No. 6; Feb. 1934, No. 7; Apr. 1934, No. 8; June 1934, No. 9; Aug. 1934, No. 10; Oct. 1934, No. 11; Feb. 1935, No. 13; June 1935, No. 15; Jan. 1938, No. 28; Aug.-Sept. 1935, No. 16; Oct.-Nov. 1935, No. 17; Dec. 1935, No. 18; Feb.-Mar. 1936, No. 19; Apr.-May 1936, No. 20; Jun.-Jul. 1936, No. 21; Aug.-Sept. 1936, No. 22; Xmas 1936, No. 23; Feb.-Mar. 1937, No. 24; Nov. 1937, Nos. 26-27; Mar. 1938, No. 29; Summer 1938, No. 30; Autumn 1938, Nos. 31-32; Jan. 1939, Vol. 1, No. 1; May 1939, Vol. 1, No. 2. 

"Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation." - Johns Hopkins University

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