ABSTRACT
Language and literature lie at the very heart of The Newbolt Report and the vision of English it presents. This chapter briefly establishes Newbolt's own position as writer and worker in the War Propaganda Bureau, considering these as significant ‘positioning’ factors in determining his relationship with both language and literature and, therefore, as significant in the shaping of the Report. These are issues of recurrent interest in the contributions to Part 2 of The New Newbolt.
