Education
Scott-James was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, and graduated in 1901.
Scott-James was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, and graduated in 1901.
He is often cited as one of the first people to use the word "modernism" in his 1908 book Modernism and Romance, in which he writes, "there are characteristics of modern life in general which can only be summed up, as Mr. Thomas Hardy and others have summed them up, by the word, modernism" (p ix). The Dictionary of National states that Scott-James "possessed a strongly developed social conscience: this manifested itself at many different points in his career in activities which, if distinct from his literary gifts, at the same time enriched them" (872).
In 1934, Scott-James took over the editorship of the influential magazine, the London Mercury from J. C. Squire, in which he published many canonically recognized authors of modernism.
The last issue of the London Mercury in April 1939 contained West. H. Auden"s "In Memory of West. B. Yeats."
Literary Editor, Daily News, London (1902-1912)
New Weekly, London (1914)
Lead-Writer, the Daily Chronicle, London (1919-1930)
Assistant Editor, the Spectator, London (1933-1935. 1939-1945)
London Mercury, London (1934-1939)
Britain To-day (1940-1954).