Hugh Gordon Porteus was an influential reviewer of art and literature in London of the 1930s, and also a poet. He was a follower and biographer (1932) of Wyndham Lewis. As literary editor of The Twentieth Century he had an early effect on the career of George Barker, about whom he wrote for Scrutiny; he was also a long time supporter and friend of Lawrence Durrell. He wrote in a hostile way about Laura Riding.

He trained as an artist, dressed in an affected way and was considered somewhat eccentric. He wrote on Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron and John Piper, amongst others. He was included in the Cairo poets World War II group.

Works

• Wyndham Lewis.:A Discursive Exposition (1932)
• Background to Chinese Art (1935)