The career of Herbert Read spanned vast and varied times and types of literature--Edwardian to postmodern--and art--art nouveau to pop art. His bibliography is a spill of creative and critical literature, in standard forms and genres and their modern...

Herbert Read was one of the most distinguished men of letters in his generation, and it is not easy to disengage the poet from the literary critic, the critic of social ideas, the tireless expositor of modern art, or the author of several works of...

ANYONE who has read that strange and haunting book, "The Green Child", will know that there were powerful contradictions at work in its author. Herbert Read, early champion of Henry Moore, co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Arts and stern agnostic was also...

Rexroth first met Herbert Read during his visit to England in 1949, shortly after the publication of his New British Poets: An Anthology (1949). Rexroth greatly admired Read and would later write a laudatory introduction for the New Directions edition of Read's novel,...