During their engagement The Spectator also favorably reviewed her first novel, Splashing into Society. In 1923 she met the American poet Alan Porter (1899–1942), assistant literary editor of The Spectator, and published a poem in the magazine in July 1923. As Barry spent the war years going to the cinema, when she wrote her book Let's go to the pictures (1926), she explicitly stated: "Going to the pictures is nothing to be ashamed of" (viii). According to scholar Yolanda Morato, the avant-garde had a very strong impact on her during this period the essence of her first book on the cinema as art is to be found in these years. She had two children with Wyndham Lewis, a boy in 1919, and daughter in 1920. In the letters Pound wrote to her, among many other things, he encouraged her to emancipate herself, to avoid marriage and to do something no other living person had done before. She moved to London in 1916 or 1917, where she met Ezra Pound and attended “Ezuversity,” that is, Ezra Pound’s programme through which he educated young male and female poets on the art of reading and writing. She studied at the Ursuline convent, Verviers, Belgium. She was the daughter of Alfred Charles Crump and Annie Crump. In the 1920s she helped establish the original London Film Society, and was the first curator of the film department of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City in 1935.īarry was born Iris Sylvia Crump, in the Washwood Heath district of Birmingham, England. Iris Barry (1895 – 22 December 1969) was a film critic and curator.
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