(Calendar of Modern Letters.) BUTTS (Mary) & Edwin Muir (Contributors)
The Calendar of Modern Letters.
Volume 1, Number 4.
Description:
pp. iv [ads], 257-336, crown 8vo,
original cream wrappers printed in blue, backstrip darkened with lean to spine overhanging edges a little nicked and creased, good
Publication Details:
Calendar Press, June 1925
Notes: This short-lived literary monthly (it became quarterly in its second year, and lasted one further) retains what Bernard Bergonzi described as 'an exemplary, even mythological' status within the crowded field of little magazines between the wars. The principal bases for this, in brief, were: its prioritisation of literary criticism, and the standards it maintained in respect of that discipline – the aspect for which it was subsequently endorsed by Leavis in his 'Scrutiny' (itself the title of a series of critical assessments within the present journal); its interest in and inclusion of Russia...moreThis short-lived literary monthly (it became quarterly in its second year, and lasted one further) retains what Bernard Bergonzi described as 'an exemplary, even mythological' status within the crowded field of little magazines between the wars. The principal bases for this, in brief, were: its prioritisation of literary criticism, and the standards it maintained in respect of that discipline – the aspect for which it was subsequently endorsed by Leavis in his 'Scrutiny' (itself the title of a series of critical assessments within the present journal); its interest in and inclusion of Russian literature; and the early publication of some American poets such as Laura Riding (Gottschalk) and Hart Crane. The Calendar's principal contributors were its founders, Edgell Rickword, Douglas Garman and Bertram Higgins, but it drew on an impressive contemporary cast – including Edwin Muir, Robert Graves, Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis, E.M. Forster, et al. The present issue includes Mary Butts' historical short story 'The Later Life of Theseus', Stella Benson's Chinese travel-essay 'Beggars and Brigands', the first of S.S. Koteliansky's translations of Mme Dostoevsky's 'Reminiscences', short stories by Edgell Rickword and J.F. Holms (the latter the only published fiction by the dedicatee of Djuna Barnes's 'Nightwood'), an assessment of Arnold Bennett by Edwin Muir, and poems by Douglas Garman. HIDE
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