Hound & Horn
Hound & Horn (English for: dog and horn ) was an American literary magazine. It appeared quarterly from September 1927 to July 1934, had around 150 pages and had an average circulation of 2500 to 3000 copies. The name of the magazine refers to a verse from Ezra Pound's poem The White Stag .
Hound & Horn was founded by Harvard students Lincoln Kirstein and Varian Fry . After The Harvard Advocate , the official literary magazine of Harvard University, rejected their entries, they convinced Kirstein's father, a Boston department store owner, to give them financial support to start their own magazine. They were based on TS Eliot's magazine The Criterion and mainly published texts by other Harvard students and alumni . Until 1929 the magazine was subtitled A Harvard Miscellany . Then, under the editors Richard Palmer Blackmur , Allen Tate and Yvor Winters , it broke away from the university, broadened its spectrum and appeared from 1930 in New York City .
The magazine contained poetry, short stories, fine art reproductions and reviews. It was close to the emerging literary criticism of New Criticism and promoted American avant-garde literature. The published texts came from B. by Conrad Aiken , Elizabeth Bishop , Kenneth Burke , John Cheever , EE Cummings , John Dos Passos , TS Eliot , James Joyce , Marianne Moore , Katherine Anne Porter , Ezra Pound , Gertrude Stein , Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams as well as pictures by Pablo Picasso and an essay by the photographer Walker Evans .
In 1934, the publication had to be discontinued because Kirstein no longer supported the magazine to instead fund the choreographer George Balanchine and the School of American Ballet .
source
- Eva Manske: Hound and Horn . In: Herbert Greiner-Mai (ed.): Small dictionary of world literature . VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig 1983. pp. 124–125.
- Entry in the Index of Modernist Magazines (with picture gallery)
literature
- Leonard Greenbaum: The Hound & Horn Archive . In: The Yale University Library Gazette, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Jan 1965), pp. 137-146.
- The Hound and Horn. 1927-1934. New York: Kraus Reprint Corporation, 1966.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Full text of "The Reappearance of photography" by Walker Evans (1931) at http://www.masters-of-photography.com/E/evans/evans_articles4.html