The Egoist
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: The Egoist
Classmark: BC MS 20c Herbert Read/2/4/1
Date(s): 1916-1919
Size and medium: 2 folders
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/692521
Collection group(s): English Literature | Special Collections Art | Herbert Read Collection
Description
This file contains 15 issues of The Egoist, edited by Harriet Shaw Weaver, with T.S. Eliot acting as Assistant Editor and Dora Marsden as Contributing Editor. Excerpts from James Joyce's Ulysses appeared in this publication, and regular contributors included Eliot, Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington.
Copies in the file are listed below, with a note on any connections to Herbert Read.
Folder 1
No.12, Vol III, December 2016.
No.1, Vol IV, January 1917.
No.2, Vol IV, February 1917.
No.4, IV, May 1917. 'In the Orchard' by Herbert Read which should appear on p.54 has been cut out.
No.6, Vol V, June-July 1918.
No.7, Vol V, August 1918.
No.8, Vol V, September 1918. Includes Read's poem 'The Meditation of a Lover at Daybreak'.
Folder 2
No.9, Vol V, October 1918. 2 copies, 1 with 'At Riviere', a poem by Herbert Read, still in situ, 1 with the poem cut out.
No.10, Vol V, November-December 1918.
No.1, Vol VI, January-February 1919.
No.2, Vol VI, March-April 1919. An advert for Read's Naked Warriors is on the back page.
No.3, Vol VI, July 1919.
No. 4, Vol VI, September 1919.
No.5, Vol VI, December 1919. An advert for the journal Art and Letters, co-founded by Read, is on the back page.
System of arrangement
Issues of the Egoist have been filed in chronological order.
Access and usage
Access
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