Herbert Read

Sir Herbert Edward Read, DSO, MC (1893-1968) was an english anarchist poet, and critic of literature and art. He was born in Kirkbymoorside in North Yorkshire. His studies at the University of Leeds were interrupted by the outbreak of World War I, during which he served with the Green Howards in France, where he received both the Military Cross and the Distinguished Service Order and reached the rank of Captain. During the war, Read founded with Frank Rutter the journal Arts and Letters, one of the first literary periodicals to publish work by T.S.Elliot.