GRAVES (Robert), Editor. The Owl. N° 2. London, Martin Secker, October 1919, 4°, [2], 3-54, [2] p., 12 planches en noir et en couleurs par Rockwell Kent William Nicholson Derwent Wood, John Nash et autres, cartonnage illustré édit. (petits défauts aux coiffes, décharge au 1er et au dernier feuillets). Printed letterpress by Gerald T. Meynell. With a starry list of contributors, including both prose and poems from Maurice Baring, Max Beerbohm Edmund Blunden, Walter De La Mare, John Freeman Robert Graves Vachel Lindsay, Siegfried Sassoon, H. M. Tomlinson, and others. Three issues only were published under the nominal editorship of Robert Graves 2 appeared in 1919, and a last in 1923. "Published during an era when the best-remembered literary magazines were decidedly experimental and political in tone, Robert Graves's short-lived quarterly The Owl is notable for its purposeful conservatism. As the foreword to the first issue affirms, 'The Owl has no politics, leads no new movement and is not even the organ of any particular generation'. In keeping with this policy, Graves rejected more radical literary figures and featured an impressive group of established writers, including Thomas Hardy W. H. Davies, John Galsworthy, and Walter de la Mare. As a traditional miscellany, The Owl also provided a forum for artists like Pamela Bianco whose vibrantly colored drawings are featured in each issue, and for younger writers like John Crowe Ransom, Siegfried Sassoon...
GRAVES (Robert), Editor. The Owl. N° 2. London, Martin Secker, October 1919, 4°, [2], 3-54, [2] p., 12 planches en noir et en couleurs par Rockwell Kent William Nicholson Derwent Wood, John Nash et autres, cartonnage illustré édit. (petits défauts aux coiffes, décharge au 1er et au dernier feuillets). Printed letterpress by Gerald T. Meynell. With a starry list of contributors, including both prose and poems from Maurice Baring, Max Beerbohm Edmund Blunden, Walter De La Mare, John Freeman Robert Graves Vachel Lindsay, Siegfried Sassoon, H. M. Tomlinson, and others. Three issues only were published under the nominal editorship of Robert Graves 2 appeared in 1919, and a last in 1923. "Published during an era when the best-remembered literary magazines were decidedly experimental and political in tone, Robert Graves's short-lived quarterly The Owl is notable for its purposeful conservatism. As the foreword to the first issue affirms, 'The Owl has no politics, leads no new movement and is not even the organ of any particular generation'. In keeping with this policy, Graves rejected more radical literary figures and featured an impressive group of established writers, including Thomas Hardy W. H. Davies, John Galsworthy, and Walter de la Mare. As a traditional miscellany, The Owl also provided a forum for artists like Pamela Bianco whose vibrantly colored drawings are featured in each issue, and for younger writers like John Crowe Ransom, Siegfried Sassoon...
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