The Calendar of Modern Letters was a short-lived (1925-27) but vibrant literary review noted both for its exacting critical standards and for publishing new work by leading modern writers. It was founded and edited by the English poet-critic and decorated war-veteran Edgell Rickword (1898-1982), assisted by Douglas Garman and by the Australian poet Bertram Higgins, with financial backing from Garman’s friend Ernest Wishart. All four were still in their twenties, their values allied to those of the literary war generation: Rickword, a minor war poet himself, had been befriended by Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon, both of whom contributed new poems to the Calendar’s first number. Rickword’s group, …

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Citation: Baldick, Chris. "The Calendar of Modern Letters". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 March 2021 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=19621, accessed 22 November 2024.]