''The New English Weekly'' was a leading British review of "Public Affairs, Literature and the Arts." It was founded in April 1932 by

Alfred Richard Orage Alfred Richard Orage (22 January 1873 – 6 November 1934) was a British influential figure in socialist politics and modernist culture, now best known for editing the magazine ''The New Age'' before the First World War. While he was working as a ...

shortly after his return from Paris. One of Britain's most prestigious editors, Orage had edited the magazine ''

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'' from 1907 to 1922. The May 16, 1932, issue of ''

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'' announced the launch of the publication, mentioning that it was represented in the U.S. by

Gorham Munson Gorham Bockhaven Munson (May 26, 1896 – August 15, 1969) was an American literary critic. Gorham was born in Amityville, New York to Hubert Barney Munson and Carrie Louise Morrow. He received his B.A. degree in 1917 from Wesleyan University, wh ...

. Other contributors included

Hilaire Belloc Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (, ; 27 July 187016 July 1953) was a Franco-English writer and historian of the early twentieth century. Belloc was also an orator, poet, sailor, satirist, writer of letters, soldier, and political activist. H ...

; Grand Duchess Marie of Russia;

Will Dyson William Henry Dyson (3 September 1880 – 21 January 1938) was an Australian illustrator and political cartoonist. In 1931 he was regarded as "one of the world's foremost black and white artists", and in 1980, "Australia's greatest cartoonist" ...

, former cartoonist of the Labour Party's '' Daily Herald''. Paul Banks reviewed drama,

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art, Storm Jameson novels, and

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music. On Orage's sudden death in 1934, the publication's literary editor,

Philip Mairet Philip Mairet (; full name: Philippe Auguste Mairet; 1886–1975) was a British designer, writer and journalist. He had a wide range of interest: crafts, Alfred Adler and psychiatry, and Social Credit. He translated major figures including Jean ...

, took over the editor's chair. George Orwell had contributed a review to the 9 June 1932 issue, and between August 1935 and April 1940, wrote regular book reviews and articles for the publication. In the "Easter Number" for 1940, the review published for the first time the long poem "

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" by T. S. Eliot. His '"

The Dry Salvages ''The Dry Salvages'' is the third poem of T. S. Eliot's ''Four Quartets'', marking the beginning of the point when the series was consciously being shaped as a set of four poems. It was written and published in 1941 during the air-raids on G ...

" was first published in the review in 1941, and ''Little Gidding'' appeared in the publication in 1942, also a first publication.Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, The paper was a leading supporter of the Social Credit Party, as well as advocating

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, among other issues.

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