NEW COUNTRY: Prose & Poetry by Authors of New Signatures. [First Edn.]

by Roberts, Michael; ed

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London:: Leonard & Virginia Woolf/Hogarth,, 1933. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; book condition good.. Prose & poetry of Cecil Day Lewis, Stephen Spender, Chris Isherwood, W.H. Auden & others, often reflecting anti-Establishment political philosophy; preceded by the pessimistic 13pp. Preface of Michael Roberts. ||| Published by Hogarth Press, founded 1917 by Leonard & Virginia Woolf as a therapeutic activity for her periodic depression. Virginia died a suicide in 1941; Leonard maintained Hogarth Press until 1946 when it was absorbed by Chatto & Windus after publishing over 500 titles. ||| The Woolfs were part of the `Bloomsbury Group,' with T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster, Bertrand Russell, Maynard Keynes, et al.