The New Age was the leading socialist journal of its day, and a major intellectual venue, introducing British readers to Freud, Nietzsche, and Bergson, and playing a crucial role in literary and artistic modernism. It published Ezra Pound, T.E. Hulme, and Katherine Mansfield, and promoted Picasso, the Futurists, the London Group, and the Vorticists, to name a few. Often classed among the “modernist magazines”, the paper’s status is somewhat complicated by its primary role as a political weekly. However, its character was always unusual. The autodidactic streak marking the Edwardian socialist press and its often provincial, working-class readers was taken to a unique pitch in the New Age. In format and breadth of intellectual reference, it resembled the urbane, liberal Nation, while its closest modern equivalent is perhaps the New Statesman. Its politics diverged, however,...
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Citation: Mead, Henry. "The New Age". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 27 January 2010 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=7214, accessed 09 June 2026.]
