The Republic of Letters was a publishing endeavor byGeorge Routledge & Sons in the mid-1920s in London. Edited byWilliam Rose, this series of books focused on interesting and significant poets, dramatists and novelists.[1] In addition to containing biographical information, the books also included psychological and social background information of the writer's own time. Certain volumes includeVoltaire byRichard Aldington,Pushkin by PrinceD.S. Mirsky, andGogol byJanko Lavrin.
Herbert Read andT. S. Eliot were both asked to contribute by Aldington, who himself had been approached byRoutledge in 1923, but both initially refused. Eliot himself initiated a similar endeavour atFaber & Gwyer (where at the time he was a director) called "The Poets on The Poets". Eventually, after consultation with Aldington, Routledge and Eliot chose to combine their two efforts, under the joint imprint of both publishers, with Eliot and Rose as joint editors.[1]
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