Edgell Rickword - A Poet at War

Edgell Rickword served in the Artists Rifles in World War I and returned to England ripe for a change. One of the sharpest critical minds of the century, he edited the influential Calendar of Modern Letters. In the 1930's he became a declared radical and a communist, helping to establish Left review and visiting Spain during the Civil War. His collaboration with leading radicals at the time make his story a history of the growth of socialist cultural thought and action in Britain.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Hobday
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.1989
• EAN: 9780856358838
• ISBN: 978-0-85635-883-8
• No. of pages: 337
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 216 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 513 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies