Hours Press

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Occupation Nancy Cunard
Her purpose in founding the press was to publish mainly contemporary poetry of an experimental kind. Virginia Woolf warned her that Your hands will always be covered with ink,
Ford, Hugh, editor. Nancy Cunard: Brave Poet, Indomitable Rebel 1896-1965. Chilton Book Company, 1968.
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but the Hours Press became...
politics Nancy Cunard
In Paris in the twenties, NC had been associated with Communism. In the thirties, she advocated revolutionary Communism in her anthology NEGRO. She worked for the cause of Republican Spain, and went there during...
Publishing Nancy Cunard
The book, published by NC 's Hours Press , included poems by Richard Aldington and Samuel Beckett and had a photomontage cover designed by Man Ray .
Chisholm, Anne. Nancy Cunard. Knopf, 1979.
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Publishing Nancy Cunard
Just before Christmas the same year, NC published the pamphlet, prepared with Raymond Michelet as her assistant at the Hours Press . One half is an attack on her mother's prejudices and the other half...
Publishing Laura Riding
Poems: A Joking Word, which had begun under the title Here Beyond, was published in London by Cape (as was Experts Are Puzzled, a book of essays and stories which LR had...
Publishing Ezra Pound
Nancy Cunard 's Hours Press in Paris published EP 's A Draft of XXX Cantos.
Nadel, Ira Bruce, editor. “Chronology; Introduction”. The Cambridge Companion to Ezra Pound, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. xvii - xxxi; 1.
xxiii, 7
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Reception Samuel Beckett
SB 's first separately published work, the poem Whoroscope, won a ten-pound prize in a competition devised by Nancy Cunard , and was printed in Paris by Cunard's Hours Press .
Parker, Peter, editor. The Reader’s Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers. Fourth Estate and Helicon, 1995.
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Federman, Raymond, and John, 1937 - Fletcher. Samuel Beckett. University of California Press, 1970.
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Residence Nancy Cunard
NC founded the Hours Press in a farmhouse in La Chapelle-Réanville, Normandy, which also became her home, or one of her homes.
Ford, Hugh, editor. Nancy Cunard: Brave Poet, Indomitable Rebel 1896-1965. Chilton Book Company, 1968.
69
Chisholm, Anne. Nancy Cunard. Knopf, 1979.
137-55, 176, 183
Textual Production W. H. Auden
An earlier, private edition of Poems was hand printed by Stephen Spender in 1928, in an edition of probably fewer than 45 copies.
Spears, Monroe K. The Poetry of W.H. Auden. The Disenchanted Island. Oxford University Press, 1968.
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A second edition appeared in 1932, and two years later a...
Textual Production Nancy Cunard
NC 's These Were the Hours: Memories of My Hours Press , Réanville and Paris, 1928-1931, with a foreword by Hugh Ford , was published posthumously.
Cunard, Nancy, and Hugh Ford. These Were the Hours. Southern Illinois University Press, 1969.
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Texts

Beckett, Samuel. Whoroscope. Hours Press, 1930.
Cunard, Nancy, and Pablo Neruda. Cinq Poèmes : les poétes du monde défendent le peuple espagnol. Hours Press, 1937.
Cunard, Nancy, and Henry Crowder. “Equitorial Way; Memory Blues”. Henry-Music, Hours Press, 1930.
Pound, Ezra. A Draft of XXX Cantos. Hours Press, 1930.
Riding, Laura. Four Unposted Letters to Catherine. Hours Press, 1930.
Riding, Laura. Twenty Poems Less. Hours Press, 1930.