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John Lehmann (seated) with sister Rosamond Lehmann and Lytton Strachey. Rudolf John Frederick Lehmann (2 June 1907 – 7 April 1987) was an English publisher, poet and man of letters. He founded the periodicals New Writing and The London Magazine, and the publishing house of John Lehmann Limited.
3 de abr. de 2024 · John Lehmann (born June 2, 1907, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, Eng.—died April 7, 1987, London) was an English poet, editor, publisher, and man of letters whose book-periodical New Writing and its successors were an important influence on English literature from the mid-1930s through the 1940s.
This chapter discusses John Lehmann's literary magazine New Writing, which introduced a new kind of prose narrative — a hybrid form of autobiography and reportage, in which personal sensibility was combined with political consciousness and historical understanding.
John Lehmann’s The Penguin New Writing (1940-1950) is considered one of the finest literary periodicals of World War Two. The journal was committed to publishing writing about all aspects of wartime life, from the front lines to daily civilian struggles, by writers from around the world.
Overview. John Lehmann. (1907—1987) publisher and author. Quick Reference. (1907–87), poet, publisher, brother of Rosamond Lehmann, editor of New Lines and the London Magazine. He was associated with the Hogarth Press, of which he became a partner in 1938. It published his first book of poems, A Garden Revisited (1931).
New Writing was a popular literary periodical in book format founded in 1936 by John Lehmann and committed to anti-fascism. It featured leading poets and writers of the day such as W.H. Auden, V.S. Pritchett, Christopher Isherwood, Tom Wintringham, Stephen Spender, Ahmed Ali, Jim Phelan, Rex Warner, and B. L. Coombes.
2 de ene. de 2009 · John Lehmann was one of the most eminent and perspicacious literary editors of the mid-twentieth century. His wartime periodical. Penguin New Writing. was one of the few successful literary forums for poetry, essays and shorter fiction while his careful post-war editorship revived interest in a number of classic European writers.
