The Island (1931) (Number 4)

The scarcest issue of The Island — A Quarterly.

Volume I, Number 4. December, 1931

“The Island Quarterly has come into existence as a vehicle of expression for valuable living contemporary thought and imagination. Its purpose is to strengthen the creative life of the individual struggling under the weight of the industrialised and standardised spirit of the age. It is endeavouring to form a centre of artistic and literary activity that shall represent a line of continuity with the past and, at the same time, build from contemporary poetic imagination immune from post-war disillusion and fatigue; to present work exemplary of the advice to Gargantua “Dieu vous gard de mal, tant vous avez la bouche fraîche.”

Eight pages of the present Number of the Magazine are devoted to a Symposium on Religion and the Artistic Imagination, contributors including John Gould Fletcher, Josef Bard and Mahatma Gandhi. A vivid picture of the spirit of Ancient Mexico is presented by Mr. Leon Underwood. The development of Art in England since the end of the war is outlined in one essay; the development of Poetry during the same period in another.”

Condition: Covers a little edgeworn eith dust-marks to both front and rear panels.