Herbert Read, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Herbert Read

English anarchist, poet, and critic of literature and art

Date of Birth: 04-Dec-1893

Place of Birth: Muscoates, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 12-Jun-1968

Profession: writer, poet, art historian, literary critic, philosopher, anarchist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

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.