Michael Roberts, New Country

Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London)

Ed. by Chris Baldick, Goldsmiths College, University of London
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.08: English Writing and Culture of the early Twentieth Century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Peter Childs (Newman University), Louise McDonald (Newman University)

Dates

First circulation or publication Mar 1933

Places

England (Country of Origin; Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Anthology/ Collection

Resources

New Country (ed. Michael Roberts, 1933) is an anthology of prose and verse writings by younger British authors then in their twenties or early thirties, most of them linked to the circle formed by W. H. Auden, C. Day Lewis, Christopher Isherwood, John Lehmann and Stephen Spender. Subtitled Prose and Poetry by the authors of “New Signatures”, it was a sequel to Michael Roberts’s earlier (1932) and shorter anthology of verse by nine young poets, and likewise published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf from their Hogarth Press. New Country differs from its predecessor volume in its predominance of prose essays and stories, and in representing an expanded cohort of fifteen writers, eight of whom had n…

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Citation: Baldick, Chris. "New Country". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 25 March 2020 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=39066, accessed 22 November 2024.]

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