ABSTRACT
The quarterlyRhythm, which made its appearance in June 1911, was a remarkable achievement for a couple of undergraduates. It is not surprising that it should have won a succes Testime in Oxford, where Vice Principal Bussell himself was to be heard reciting over and over, with a delighted chuckle, the conclusion of a prose-poem by Carco: ‘Absolumment nu! Absolumment nu!’ But Murry’s intention was realized: there was nothing in the magazine itself to betray its undergraduate origins, nor was the small band of readers located mainly within the University. It was emphatically, aggressively cosmopolitan, aiming directly at those who had been excited, the winter before, by the first Post-Impressionist exhibition at the Grafton Gallery. It was on Katherine’s initiative that he came down from Oxford that spring; on hers that he cut adrift from his parents, taking a room in her flat; on hers that – at the third time of asking – he became her lover.
