12 x The London Magazine , Monthly Review of Literature COMPLETE VOL 3 1956

Description: The London Magazine Monthly Review of Literature COMPLETE VOL 3 1956Jan - DecThe London Magazine is England’s oldest literary periodical, with a history stretching back to 1732. Today – reinvigorated for a new century – the Magazine’s essence remains unchanged: it is a home for the best writing and an indispensable feature on the British literary landscape.Across a long life – spanning several incarnations – the pages of the Magazine have played host to a wide range of canonical writers, from Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Hazlitt and John Keats in the nineteenth century, to T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden and Evelyn Waugh in the early twentieth century. Meanwhile, in recent decades the Magazine has published work by giants of contemporary fiction and poetry such as William Boyd, Nadine Gordimer, and Derek Walcott...In 1954 editor and writer John Lehmann founded the most recent incarnation of The London Magazine: it has been published continuously since. In the first issue, T. S. Eliot recommended to readers "a magazine that will boldly assume the existence of a public interested in serious literature". Louis MacNeice published his Canto In Memoriam Dylan Thomas, and Henry Green reviewed the diaries of Virginia Woolf.Under Lehmann, and subsequent editors Alan Ross (who became editor in 1961), and Sebastian Barker (2001), the Magazine became a pole star in the London literary firmament, developing a reputation for publishing the best and most interesting fiction, poetry, criticism and essays from England and across the world, and for helping to bring a new of a generation of young English writers to public attention. The work of a vast array of towering twentieth-century figures found a home among its pages, including William Burroughs, Harold Pinter, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Les Murray, and Paul Muldoon...

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