Male : Poet, Novelist and Art Critic. Married Evelyn Roff & Margaret Ludwig

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Muscoates Grange, Kirbymoorside, Yorkshire

Date of Birth : 1893 Date of Death : 1968 Age : 75

Other Work : An Assistant Keeper at the V & A 1922-31. Watson Gordon Professor of Fine Art at Edinburgh University 1931-1933. Professor of Poetry at Harvard 1953-4

Education : Crossley's School, Halifax & Leeds University

1919-1925
Songs of Chaos (1915 Elkin Mathews 1/-)
Auguries of Life and Death (1919)
Eclogues : A Book of Poems (1919)
[Are these his earliest works ?]
Naked Warriors (1919 Art & Letters, London) - 1st book
Mutations of the Phoenix (1923 Hogarth Press)
(Ed) Speculations : Essays on Humanism and the Philosophy of Art by T E Hulme (1923)
English Pottery : Its Development from Early Times to End of 18thC
(1924 Benn) - with Bernard Rackham
In Retreat (1925 Hogarth Press)

1926-1930
Collected Poems 1913-25 (1926 Faber & Gwyer)
English Stained Glass (1926 Putnam, London)
Reason and Romanticism : Essays in Literary Criticism (1926)
(Ed) Form in Gothic by W R Worringer (1927)
English Prose Style (1928 George Bell) (1928 Holt) - criticism
Phases of English Poetry (1928 Hogarth Press)
The Sense of Glory : Essays in Criticism (1929 CUP)
Staffordshire Pottery Figures (1929 Duckworth) - 1250
(Ed) Notes on Language and Style by T E Hulme (1929)
Wordsworth : The Clark Lectures 1929-1930 (1930)
Ambush (1930)
Julien Benda & the New Humanism (1930 Univ of Washington Bookshop, Seattle) - 36pp

1931-1935
The Meaning of Art (1931 Faber) (1936 Faber. Revised Edition)
(Ed) The London Book of English Prose (1931) - with Bonamy Dobree
The Place of Art in a University (1931 Oliver & Boyd)
Form in Modern Poetry (1932)
The End of a War (1932 Faber)
The Innocent Eye (1933 Faber)
(Ed) The English Vision (1933)
Art Now : An Introduction to the Theory of Modern Painting and Sculpture
(1933 Faber) (1937 Harcourt Brace) - frontis by Jean Cocteau
Art and Industry : The Principles of Industrial Design (1934 Faber)
(Ed) Unit 1 : The Modern Movement in English Architecture, Painting and Sculpture (1934)
In Defence of Shelley & Other Essays (1935)
Essential Communism (1935)
(Ed) Selected Essays and Critical Writings by A R Orage (1935) - with Denis Saurat
Poems 1914-34 (1935 Faber)
The Green Child : A Romance (1935 Heinemann) (1945 Grey Walls Press)
(1947 Eyre & Spottiswoode) - intro by Graham Greene
(1948 New Directions)

1936-1940
(Ed) Surrealism (1936 Faber)
Art and Society (1937 Heinemann) (1937 Macmillan US)
Paul Nash : 10 Coloured Plates with a Critical Appreciation (1937 Soho Gallery, London)
Collected Essays in Literary Criticism (1938)
Poetry and Anarchism (1938) - collected essays
(Ed) The Knapsack : A Pocket-Book of Prose and Verse (1939 Routledge)
Annals of Innocence & Experience (1940) - autobiography
The Philosophy of Anarchism (1940)
Thirty-Five Poems (1940 Faber)

1941-1945
To Hell with Culture : Democratic Values are New Values (1941 Kegan Paul)
(Ed) Kropotkin : Selections from His Writings (1942)
Education Through Art (1943 Faber) (nd Pantheon)
The Politics of the Unpolitical (1943)
The Education of Free Men (1944)
Flicker (1944) - with Toni del Renzio & R S O Poole
A World Within a War (1944)
Henry Moore : Sculpture & Drawings (1944 Curt Valentin, NY) (1944 Lund Humphries)
A Coat of Many Colours : Occasional Essays (1945)

1946-1955
The Grass Roots of Art : Four Lectures (1946)
(Ed) The Practice of Design (1946)
Collected Poems (1946 Faber)
Coleridge as Critic (1949)
Education for Peace (1949)
(Ed) The London Book of English Verse (1949) - with Bonamy Dobree
Existentialism, Marxism and Anarchism : Chains of Freedom (1949)
(Ed) Outline : An Autobiography and Other Writings by Paul Nash (1949)
Byron : A Sketch (1951 Longmans)
Contemporary British Art (1951 Pelican)
The Philosophy of Modern Art : Collected Essays (1952)
The True Voice of Feeling : Studies in English Romantic Poetry (1953)
(Ed) The Collected Works of C J Jung (1953-73) - 17 vols. with Michael Fordham & Gerhard Adler
Anarchy and Order : Essays in Politics (1954 Faber)
Icon and Idea : The Function of Art in the Development of Human Consciousness (1955 Faber 42/-)
Moon's Farm, and Poems Mostly Elegaic (1955 Faber 10/6)

1956-1960
Ben Nicholson : Work Since 1947 Vol 2 (1956 London)
(Ed) This Way delight : A Book of Poetry for the Young (1956)
The Art of Sculpture : Lectures (1956 Pantheon, NY) (1961 Faber. 2nd Ed)
The Significance of Children's Art : Art as a Symbolic Language (1957)
The Tenth Muse : Essays in Criticism (1957)
Gabo : Constructions, Sculpture, Paintings, Drawings, Engravings
(1957 Harvard UP) - with Leslie Martin
A Concise History of Modern Painting (1959)
The Form of Things Unknown : Essays Towards an Aethetic Philosophy (1960)
English Stained Glass (1960 London) - with John Baker & A Lammer

1961-1965
Truth is More Sacred : A Critical Exchange on Modern Literature (1961) - with Edward Dahlberg
The Parliament of Women (1961)
A Letter to a Young Painter (1962 Thames & Hudson 18/-)
The Contrary Experience : Autobiographies (1963 Faber) (1963 Horizon Press)
Selected Writings (1963)
To Hell with Culture and Other Essays on Art and Society (1963)
Lord Byron at the Opera (1963)
Art and Education (1964)
A Concise History of Modern Sculpture (1964 Thames & Hudson)
(Ed) The Origins of Western Art (1965)
Henry Moore : A Study of His Life and Work (1965 Thames & Hudson)
The Origins of Form in Art (1965 Horizon Press, NY)

1966 Onwards
The Redemption of the Robot : My Encounter with Education Through Art (1966 Faber £2)
TSE : A Memoir on Eliot (1966)
Collected Poems (1966 Horizon Press)
(Ed) The Thames & Hudson Encylopaedia of the Arts (1966 Thames & Hudson)
Art and Alienation : The Role of the Artist in Society (1967)
Poetry and Experience (1967)
The Cult of Sincerity (1968)
The Art of Jean Arp (1968 Abrams, NY) (1969 Thames & Hudson)
Essays in Literary Criticism : Particular Studies (1969)
Marino Marini : Complete Works (1970 Tudor, NY)
[Italian sculptor, painter, lithographer and etcher 1901-1980]
Jan le Witt (1971 Library Press, NY) - with Jean Cassou
A One-Man Manifesto & Other Writings for Freedom Press (1994 Freedom Press £6)

READING
(Ed) Henry Treece : Herbert Read - An Introduction (1944)
Francis Berry : Herbert Read (1953) (1961 British Council)
George Woodcock : Herbert Read - The Stream and the Source (1972 Faber)
James King : The Last Modern - A Life of Herbert Read (1990 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)