Table of Contents

• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction – David Goodway
• The Poetry of Herbert Read – Kieron Winn
• Herbert Read and the Great War – Hugh Cecil
• Herbert Read as Literary Critic – John R. Doheny
• Herbert Read’s Use of Sigmund Freud – John R. Doheny
• Herbert Read as Autobiographer – Peter Abbs
• Herbert Read as Novelist: The Green Child – Bob Barkers
• Herbert Read and Contemporary Art – Andrew Causey
• Herbert Read and Design – Robin Kinross
• Herbert Read: Word and Object: In response to Robin Kinross
• The Politics of Herbert Read – David Goodway
• Herbert Read: Art, Education, and the Means of Redemption – Malcolm Ross
• Herbert Read’s Organic Aesthetic: [I] 1918-1950 – David Thistlewood
• Herbert Read’s Organic Aesthetic: [II] 1950-1968 – David Thistlewood
• Perception and Expression: Read’s A Concise History of Modern Painting – Paul Street
• Herbert Read and Englishness – Kevin Davey
• Herbert Read and Essential Modernism: Or the Loss of an Image of the World
• A chronological bibliography of books and pamphlets written, edited or translated by Herbert Read
• Notes on Contributors
• Index

About the Author

David Goodway is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Leeds. Previous publications include 'London Chartism, 1838-1848' (Cambridge University Press: 1982,2002), 'For Anarchism: History, Theory, and Practice' (ed. 'Routledge:1989) and 'Herbert Read Reassessed' (ed. Liverpool University Press:1998).

Reviews

An impressive volume... it manages to present a unified but not totalizing portrait of one of England’s most distinguished twentieth-century critics.
*English Historical Review*