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The E-BNR aims to build a comprehensive & unique cross-artform guide to the British neo-Romantic tradition, from 1880 to the present day.

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 WHAT IS NEO-ROMANTICISM ?

  Neo-Romantic artists have drawn their inspiration   from artists of the age of Romanticism or earlier.   Characteristic themes in their work include a   mystical approach to the British landscape...

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INDEX OF ENTRIES:

1880-1920:


  Fiction:

George Macdonald.
Lewis Carroll.
John Ruskin.
Christina Rosetti.
Rudyard Kipling.
William Morris.
Richard Jefferies.
Edward Carpenter.
Kenneth Grahame.
Arthur Machen.
Algernon Blackwood.
'Saki'.

  Poetry:

G.M. Hopkins.
W.B. Yeats.
A.E. Housman
Laurence Binyon.

  Music:

Gustav Holst.
Vaughan Williams.
Edward Elgar.
Granville Bantock.

  Painting:

Edward Burne-Jones.
Maxwell Armfield.
Mark Symons.
John Duncan.
George Henry.
  & Edward Atkinson
  Cornell.

Gerald Moira.
Robert Bateman.
Samuel Palmer.
Walter Crane.
Edward Robert Hughes.
Bernard Sleigh.
Eleanor Fortescue
  -Brickdale.

Nathaniel Sparks.
F.C. Robinson.
Reginald Hallward.
Laurence Housman.
James Joshua Guthrie.
Paul Nash.
Charles Mahoney.
Arthur Rackham.
Thomas Cooper Gotch.
Christopher Wood.

  Movements:

Symbolism.
Aesthetic movement.
Birmingham Group.
Neo-gothic architecture.
Pictorialism.
Fairy & ghost photos.


1920s - 'places to hide':

Ballet design.
Book illustration.
The Kibbo Kift.


1930-to-1955:


  Fiction:

John Cowper Powys.
J.R.R. Tolkien.
Mervyn Peake.
C.S. Lewis.
Daphne du Maurier.
Mary Webb.
Herbert Read.
Forrest Reid
T.H. White.
Hugh Walpole.

  Non-fiction:

Robert Graves.
Rev. Francis Kilvert.
Geoffrey Grigson.
Bill Brandt.
Roger Mayne.
John Deakin.
Nikolaus Pevsner.

  Music:

Arnold Bax.
Vaughan Williams.

  Painting:

John Piper.
John Craxton.
John Minton.
David Jones.
Graham Sutherland.
Stanley Spencer.
Eric Ravilious.
Ralph Chubb.
Charles Mahoney.
Michael Ayrton.
Thomas Monnington.

  Poetry:

Dylan Thomas.
Edwin Smith.
Ithell Colquhoun.
Francis Berry.
George Barker.
Laurence Whistler.

  Film:

Humphrey Jennings.
Powell & Pressburger.
David Lean.
Epic British film music.

 


 

 

 

 

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    Thomas Monnington (1902–1976)
    Southern England 1944 - Spitfires attacking Flying Bombs.

    INDEX OF ENTRIES:

    1955-to-1975:

      Painting:

    Leslie Hurry.
    Robin Tanner.
    Ceri Richards.
    Michael Ayrton.


      Classical music:

    Havergal Brian.
    Benjamin Britten.

      Poetry:

    Dylan Thomas   (reputation).
    Vernon Watkins.
    Ted Hughes.
    Christopher Logue.
    Keith Vaughan.
    Ore magazine.
    Eric Ratcliffe.
    Edwin Morgan.
    Roland Mathias.

      Fiction:

    Laurie Lee.
    Alan Garner.
    John Gordon.

      Non-fiction:

    Laurie Lee.
    E.P. Thompson.
    J.A. Baker.
    Geoffrey Grigson.


    1975-to-2000:


      Photography:

    Fay Godwin.
    James Ravilious.
    Raymond Moore.
    Andy Goldsworthy.

      Popular music:

    Robert Wyatt.
    Syd Barrett.
    Marc Bolan.
    John Foxx.
    Throbbing Gristle.
    Genesis P. Orridge.
    The Dancing Did.
    Virginia Astley.
    Brian Eno.
    Roger Eno.

      Classical music:

    Dave Heath.

      Illustration:

    Clifford Harper.

      Film:

    Derek Jarman.
    David Rudkin.

      Fashion:

    Vivienne Westwood.

      Literature:

    Angela Carter.
    Ted Hughes.
    Peter Ackroyd.
    Heathcote Williams.
    Keith Roberts.
    Richard Cowper.
    Robert Holdstock.
    Susan Cooper.

      Poetry:

    Kathleen Raine.
    Roland Mathias.
    Gwyn Thomas.
    R.S. Thomas.
    George Mackay
      Brown.

    Seamus Heaney.
    Pauline Stainer.

      Artists:

    Graham Ovenden.
    Annie Ovenden.
    Ann Arnold.
    Robert Lenkiewicz.
    John Elwyn.
    Cecil Collins.
    Ian Hamilton Finlay.
    Andrew Logan.
    Alan Reynolds.
    Norman Ackroyd.
    Christopher P. Wood.
    Jim Leon.

      Groups & circles:

    The Ruralists.
    Temenos magazine.
    Resurgence magazine.
    Crop Circles, makers.
    English Underground.


    2000 - to the present:

    Andrew Logan.
    Ian Hamilton Finlay.
    Vivienne Westwood.
    Andy Goldsworthy.
    Christopher Bucklow.
    Peter Ackroyd.
    Pauline Stainer.
    Brian Eno.
    Roger Eno.
    Jon Aldersea.
    Christopher P. Wood.
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