Polemic – Covers and Contents
Polemic magazine was published for eight issues post-World War Two. The editor was Humphrey Slater. George Orwell’s name appeared as a member of the Editorial Board. From the third issue it carried a strap-line promising payment of five guineas (£5.5.0 or £5.25p) per thousand words.
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Issue One contained George Orwell’s ‘Notes on Nationalism’
Issue Two contained Orwell’s ‘The Prevention of Literature’
Issue Three had an editorial by George Orwell and ‘Second Thoughts on James Burnham’
Issue Four
Issue Five contained George Orwell’s ‘Politics vs Literature: An examination of Gulliver’s Travels‘, and Randall Swingler’s ‘The Right to Free Expression’ annotated by George Orwell
Issue Six
Issue Seven contained George Orwell’s ‘Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool’
Issue Eight
Apologies if this isn’t the appropriate place for this message, and if it’s not I’ll probably try elsewhere later, but could the owner of these scan and upload to the Internet Archive (archive.org) – or somewhere else freely accessible?
I’ve been unable to find the Editorial or annotated essay, both I am very interested in.
Not only that but I have been unable to find any of these available online, and original source material is always more meaningful than only the text. The other essays all look interesting also, and I would say the magazines as a whole hold a lot of historical value.
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/7843
https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/2744
https://assets.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_2744_300160535.pdf
(Search for “polemic” in the pdf, and start there)
If not, that’s the way it goes I suppose, it is what it is