Horizon (magazine)

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Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art (German: Horizont: Eine Zeitschrift für Literatur und Kunst ) was a British monthly magazine that appeared from 1940 to 1950.

The English writer and literary critic Cyril Connolly edited it in London together with Peter Watson . Connolly was responsible for the literary part, Watson financed the project and determined the art part. Stephen Spender also worked as editor in the early years .

Horizon first appeared immediately after the start of World War II. Despite the small circulation of less than 10,000 copies, the magazine had a great influence on the intellectual life of the Anglo-Saxon world thanks to its well-known authors. Special editions were devoted to Ireland (1941), Switzerland (1946) and the United States (1947).

Authors

The following well-known authors and artists were represented in Horizon :

credentials

In Evelyn Waugh's war novel Unconditional Surrender , editor Connolly is parodied in the character of Everard Spruce. In the novel, the magazine is called Survival .

expenditure

Individual evidence

  1. Hilton Kramer: Cyril Connolly's 'The Horizon' , in: The New Criterion , September 1989, online
  2. ^ The Press. Land of the Middlebrow , online in Time Magazine October 20, 1947
  3. " Horizon . 1940 - 1949. Cyril Connolly " in the bookride booklet .
  4. ^ "Everard Spruce is Cyril Connolly and his periodical Horizon is Survival" Paul Johnson, Novelists at Arms , in: Standpoint Magazine , Jan / Feb 2012 online .