Genteel Anarchism: Herbert Read's Poetry of Two Wars

• Published in: Literature and history Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 59 - 76
• Main Author: Klaus, H. Gustav
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.05.2007; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: American literature; Anarchism; Autobiographies; Avant-garde; British & Irish literature; Conscientious objectors; Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns) (1888-1965); German literature; Literary criticism; Modernism; Pacifism; Poetry; Politics; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Read, Herbert Edward, Sir (1893-1968); Remarque, Erich Maria (1898-1970); World War I; Writers

[...]he claims, for example, in his autobiography Annals of Innocence and Experience, first published in 1940, that his anarchist beliefs reach back to his formative years before the First World War. Whatever pull is more powerful at any given moment will command adherence. [...]it is possible to ac...