The Calendar of Modern Letters

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The Calendar of Modern Letters was a short-lived British literary review journal. It was established by the poet Edgell Rickword, and published from March 1925 to July 1927.

Contributors included Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves, Siegfied Sassoon, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, Wyndham Lewis, Edwin Muir, Luigi Pirandello, Leonid Leonov, Alexander Nieverov, Isaac Babel, Hart Crane, Allen Tate and John Crowe Ransom. "But what established the journal's reputation and gave it, at all events in retrospect, its cachet was less its discovery of new voices than its combativeness as an organ of informed criticism." [1] The Calendar publicly established the modern long-format form of literary criticism. [2]

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References

  1. Lucas, John (2009). "Standards of Criticism: The Calendar of Modern Letters (1925-7)". In Peter Brooker and Andrew Thacker (ed.). The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume I: Britain and Ireland 1880-1955. USA: Oxford University Press. pp. 389–404. ISBN   978-0-19-921115-9 . Retrieved 21 August 2012.
  2. Bergonzi, Bernard (1986). "'The Calendar of Modern Letters'". The Yearbook of English Studies. 16: 150–163. doi:10.2307/3507771. ISSN   0306-2473.