Editing Herbert Read (section)

==Early life==
The eldest of four children of tenant farmer Herbert Edward Read (1868–1903) and his wife Eliza Strickland, Read was born at [[Muscoates]] Grange,<ref name="Harrod 2004">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Harrod |first=Tanya |encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |title=Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893–1968), poet, literary critic, and writer on art |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=2004-09-23 |isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/35695 |oclc=56568095}}</ref> near [[Nunnington]], about four miles south of [[Kirkbymoorside]] in the [[North Riding of Yorkshire]]. In ''Herbert Read- The Stream and the Source'' (1972), [[George Woodcock]] wrote: "rural memories are long... nearly sixty years after Read's father... had died and the family had left Muscoates, I heard it said that 'the Reads were snobs'. They employed a governess (and) rode to hounds..."<ref>Herbert Read- The Stream and the Source, George Woodcock, 1972 (2008 reprint), Black Rose Books, p. 11</ref> After his father's death, the family, being tenants rather than owners, had to leave the farm; Read was sent to a school for orphans at [[Halifax, West Yorkshire]],<ref>Herbert Read Reassessed, David Goodaway, Liverpool University Press, 1998, p. 1</ref><ref>A Tribute to Herbert Read, 1893-1968, Bradford Art Galleries and Museums, 1975, p. 64</ref> and his mother took a job managing laundry in Leeds, where Read later joined her.<ref>Herbert Read: A Vision of World Art, ed. Benedict Read et al, Leeds City Art Galleries, 1993, p. 147</ref> Read's studies at the [[University of Leeds]] were interrupted by the outbreak of the [[First World War]], during which he served with the [[Green Howards]] in France. He was commissioned in January 1915,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29031 |supp=y| date=5 January 1915 |page=250}}</ref> and received both the [[Military Cross]] (MC) and the [[Distinguished Service Order]] (DSO) "for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty" in 1918.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30466 |supp=y| date=8 January 1918 |page=638 }}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30813 |supp=y| date=23 July 1918 |page=8749 }}</ref> He reached the rank of [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Sir Herbert Read, Critic, Is Dead; Early Champion of Abstract Art; Poet and Literary Essayist Explored Effect of Industrial Society on Esthetic Values |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=1968-06-13 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1968/06/13/archives/sir-herbert-read-critic-is-dead-early-champion-of-abstract-art-poet.html |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |df=mdy-all }}</ref><!-- more in source -->

During the war, Read founded the journal [[Frank Rutter#Art & Letters|''Arts & Letters'']] with [[Frank Rutter]], one of the first literary periodicals to publish work by [[T. S. Eliot]].<ref>James King, ''Herbert Read – The Last Modern'' (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1990.</ref>