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Faber and Faber is a celebrated publishing house in the UK, notable in particular for publishing the poetry of T. S. Eliot. It played an important part in twentieth century British and world literature, publishing widely in the fields of novels and literary criticism, as well as poetry and dramaturgy. It has employed distinguished literary figures as editors; as well as Eliot (until 1965), these include William Plomer and Craig Raine.The firm was founded in 1925 as Faber and Gwyer, as a successor to The Scientific Press , owned by Sir Maurice and Lady Gwyer. They brought in Geoffrey Faber, then a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. In 1929 the partnership in the firm was terminated, and the name Faber and Faber then adopted.
An early commercial success was Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man, by Siegfried Sassoon (1928), at first issued anonymously.
The Faber Book of Modern Verse was an influential anthology, first edited by Michael Roberts.
In the U.S., Faber and Faber is an imprint of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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- Faber Book of Modern American VersePoetry anthology The Faber Book of Modern American Verse was a poetry anthology edited by W. Auden, and published in London in 1956 by Faber and Faber. Auden had moved from the UK to the USA in 1939, and had been directly involved in the American poetry s
- Faber Book of Twentieth Century VersePoetry anthology The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse: An Anthology of Verse in Britain 1900-1950 was a poetry anthology edited by John Heath-Stubbs and David Wright, and first published in 1953 by Faber and Faber. A selection in self-conscious contr
- Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Women's PoetryPoetry anthology The Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Women's Poetry is a poetry anthology edited by Fleur Adcock, and published in 1987 by Faber and Faber. According to her Introduction, the selection of women poets, writing in English, was meant to illus
- Modern Scottish Poetry (Faber)Poetry anthology Modern Scottish Poetry: An Anthology of the Scottish Renaissance 1920-1945 was a poetry anthology edited by Maurice Lindsay, and published in 1946 by Faber and Faber. Poets in Modern Scottish Poetry (1946) Margot Robert Adamson Marion Ang
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