Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art

Literary/ Cultural Context Essay

Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London)

Ed. by Chris Baldick, Goldsmiths College, University of London
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.08: English Writing and Culture of the early Twentieth Century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Peter Childs (Birmingham Newman University), Louise McDonald (Birmingham Newman University), Andrew Radford (University of Glasgow)

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Date of occurrence 1939-12-16-1950-01

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Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art

(1939-1949; nominally 1940-50) was a London-based monthly magazine founded by Cyril Connolly (1903-74) with initial help from Stephen Spender and with the financial support of the wealthy art-collector Peter Watson. Launched after the closure of several literary magazines in early 1939 (

The Criterion, The London Mercury, New Verse

and others), and with an initial print-run of 1,000, it quickly established itself as Britain’s premier monthly cultural review of the 1940s, reaching a circulation of around 8,000 on the basis of its low cover-price of one shilling. The first issue, although dated January 1940, was released before Christmas 1939, and the review eventually survived through a run of 120 issues, each of them with “Edited by Cyril…

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Citation: Baldick, Chris. "Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 26 April 2021 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=19625, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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