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Herbert Read

1893 - 1968

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Sir Herbert Edward Read, (; 4 December 1893 – 12 June 1968) was an English art historian, poet, literary critic and philosopher, best known for numerous books on art, which included influential volumes on the role of art in education. Read was co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Arts. As well as being a prominent English anarchist, he was one of the earliest English writers to take notice of existentialism. He was co-editor with Michael Fordham and Gerhard Adler of the British edition in English of The Collected Works of C. G. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herbert Read has received more than 320,044 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Herbert Read is the 2,678th most popular writer (down from 2,615th in 2019), the 1,984th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,993rd in 2019) and the 220th most popular British Writer.

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  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.50

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  • 2.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among writers, Herbert Read ranks 2,678 out of 7,302. Before him are Commodian, Heimito von Doderer, Uhwudong, Mihály Vörösmarty, Edith Pargeter, and Bhavabhuti. After him are Krishna Sobti, Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Petar Hektorović, Harlan Ellison, Labīd, and Jacques Collin de Plancy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Herbert Read ranks 123. Before him are Carlo Emilio Gadda, Ernst Marischka, Frederick William Franz, José María Velasco Ibarra, Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony, and Olga Baclanova. After him are Otto Lasch, Madeleine Astor, Mina Witkojc, Rued Langgaard, Lajos Czeizler, and Jean Acker. Among people deceased in 1968, Herbert Read ranks 98. Before him are Tallulah Bankhead, Tivadar Soros, Lilian Harvey, Ramón Menéndez Pidal, Gholamreza Takhti, and Tian Han. After him are Randolph Churchill, George Hackenschmidt, Sigfried Giedion, Alfredo Foglino, Anthony Asquith, and Sergei Natanovich Bernstein.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Herbert Read ranks 1,984 out of 8,785. Before him are Lord Guildford Dudley (1536), Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (1757), Roger Hodgson (1950), Cynewulf of Wessex (750), Edith Pargeter (1913), and Paul W. S. Anderson (1965). After him are Francis Rossi (1949), John Adams (1767), Randolph Churchill (1911), Hugh Hudson (1936), Daisy, Princess of Pless (1873), and Richard Parkes Bonington (1801).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Herbert Read ranks 220. Before him are Tobias Smollett (1721), John Wyndham (1903), Frederick Marryat (1792), Mary Astell (1666), Tom Sharpe (1928), and Edith Pargeter (1913). After him are William Smith (1813), Peter James (1948), Marjorie Boulton (1924), Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster (1310), Thomas Gray (1716), and Thomas Kyd (1558).

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