Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art was a literary magazine published in London, UK, between December 1939 and January 1950. Published every four weeks, it was edited by Cyril Connolly, who made it into a platform for a wide range of distinguished and emerging writers. It had a print run of 120 issues"", Bookride: Horizon 1940–1949, Accessed July 13, 2016. or 20 volumes."Editions/Volumes of Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art.", Google Books, Accessed August 25, 2013.
Connolly founded Horizon after T. S. Eliot ended The Criterion in January 1939, with Peter Watson as its financial backer and de facto art editor. Connolly was editor throughout its publication and Stephen Spender was an uncredited associate editor until early 1941.Michael Shelden (1989): Friends of Promise: Cyril Connolly and the World of "Horizon", Hamish Hamilton / Harper & Row, . Connolly described the magazine's goal during World War II as
The magazine had a small circulation of around 9,500, but an impressive list of contributors, and it made a significant impact on the arts during and just after the war. Connolly issued an all-Irish number in 1941, an all-Swiss number in 1946 and a U. S. number in October 1947."Land of the Middlebrow", Time, October 20, 1947. There was also a French issue and one comprising The Loved One, the novel by Evelyn Waugh.
Paul Fussell praised Horizon as "one of the most civilized and civilizing of periodicals ... with material of almost unbelievable excellence". He described it as "Around 10,000 pages of exquisite poetry and prose and art reproductions, produced and read in the midst of the most discouraging and terrible destruction ... one of the high moments in the long history of British eccentricity". Waugh was less positive, telling Connolly that he heard "an ugly accent—RAF pansy" from the magazine. He twice satirized Connolly and Horizon, as Ambrose Silk and Ivory Tower in Put Out More Flags, and Everard Spruce and Survival in Sword of Honour. Spruce, like Connolly, was the editor of a literary review, liked good food and parties, and was surrounded by helpful young ladies. Two of the women at the magazine were Clarissa Eden"Clarissa Eden's road to Suez", Telegraph, 20 December 2007. and Sonia Brownell, and Brownell met author George Orwell (whose real name was Eric Blair) through Horizon and later married him.
Selected list of contributors Contributors included:"Horizon. 1940–1949. Cyril Connolly", Bookride.
Gerald Abraham Jankel Adler Louis Aragon W. H. Auden A. J. Ayer John Banting George Barker Arturo Barea Béla Bartók Cecil Beaton John Betjeman Alexander Blok Paul Bowles C. M. Bowra Arthur Calder-Marshall Kenneth Clark Robert Colquhoun John Craxton Benedetto Croce R. H. Crossman Nancy Cunard Rhys Davies Cecil Day-Lewis Paul Brooks Davis Lawrence Durrell T. S. Eliot Paul Eluard William Empson Gavin Ewart Ian Fleming E. M. Forster Lucian Freud J. F. C. Fuller Roy Fuller David Gascoyne André Gide W. S. Graham G. F. Green Graham Greene Philip Hendy Barbara Hepworth Hermann Hesse Terence Heywood Brian Howard Aldous Huxley Robin Ironside Christopher Isherwood Randall Jarrell Augustus John Mervyn Jones-Evan Pierre Jean Jouve Anna Kavan Paul Klee Arthur Koestler Philip Lamantia Osbert Lancaster Alun Lewis James Lord (author) Rose Macaulay Cecily Mackworth Julian MacLaren-Ross Louis MacNeice Olivia Manning Rosemary Manning André Masson Robert Melville Henry Miller Nancy Mitford Henry Moore Alan Moorehead Paul Nash Ben Nicholson Sean O'Faolain George Orwell Jean Paulhan John Piper William Plomer John Pope-Hennessy J. B. Priestley Peter Quennell Kathleen Raine Herbert Read Edouard Roditi John Rothenstein Bertrand Russell Vita Sackville-West William Sansom Jean-Paul Sartre Osbert Sitwell Logan Pearsall Smith Stephen Spender Enid Starkie Wallace Stevens G. W. Stonier Graham Sutherland A. J. A. Symons Dylan Thomas Peter Ustinov John Waller Vernon Watkins Denton Welch H. G. Wells Eudora Welty Patrick White Diana Witherby Rollo Woolley Virginia Woolf Beryl de Zoete
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