“... is an account of volunteering on the Dungeness lifeboat. It’s freighted with quotations from FordMadox Ford, who thought Dungeness was the end of the world, and Joseph Conrad, for whom it was the first sight of England. Still, Gregory is not ...”

“... hurriedly for Paris, where he was eventually arrested and imprisoned. Meanwhile Jean took up with FordMadox Ford, who encouraged and supervised her urge to become a writer. Stella Benson, ...”

“... Jews, of course, but also on Milton. Later he consulted other great men of an earlier generation: FordMadox Ford, T.S. Eliot, of whom Lowell was extremely fond, Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams, much admired despite Lowell’s worries ...”

“... famous, as they do everybody else’s, and now find a place in the story. The greasy trilby hat FordMadox Ford put to dry in Jessie Conrad’s oven, provoking the only outburst of wrath ever seen on the part of that placid lady; the ‘good ...”

“... devoted to Pound’s letters not only to fellow writers such as Wyndham Lewis, E.E. Cummings, FordMadox Ford, Louis Zukofsky and William Carlos Williams, but also to various editors and patrons: to the somewhat mysterious Margaret Cravens, a ...”

“... FordMadox Brown’s greatest picture is called Work, and it depicts the laying of a sewer. It is not beautiful. But that is part of Brown’s point, for he was after qualities that counted for more than beauty. Its subject was carefully chosen ...”

“... art of loving and wanting involves, even in the most nuanced way, publicity: it needs words. In FordMadox Ford’s The Good Soldier, the narrator contemplates the words of passion used by Edward Ashburnham to a young girl, Nancy, and his need to ...”

“... a little discontented, that will perhaps be because it occurs to them to speculate as to what FordMadox Ford might have made of this material; or because they rather greedily expected even more from a novelist they had long since learnt to ...”

“... one of the first wave of computer programmers, while working on an MA thesis by correspondence on FordMadox Ford. The MA was awarded in 1963, but that takes us beyond the end of Youth. If there were to be another memoir it would cover Coetzee’s ...”

“... scores more who had a stake in the continuing vitality of literature, including Yeats, Lawrence, FordMadox Ford, Wyndham Lewis and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. The writers, clustered in clubs or ‘gangs’, wanted to redraw the cultural map. The ...”

“... her in Paris, not exactly among ‘the bevies of truculent women’ who surrounded Hemingway and FordMadox Ford but somewhere near. On the fringe of the Montparnasse bars were a few talented storytellers running to seed, like poor generous ...”

“... any accuracy: it was with very good reason that those ‘other Edwardians’, Joyce, Pound and FordMadox Ford, made such a clamour about ‘constatation’ and ‘direct treatment of the object’. Let us come back to Galsworthy’s ...”

“... force is at work as in Nostromo: a most intricate form is produced, alive in every part. FordMadox Ford, oddly for him, complained that A Personal Record was ‘ragged’ and wanted it extended – to the wrath of Conrad, who declared ...”

“... used to call ‘the grade A crumpet’ until at last senility takes hold. (In James’s phrase, FordMadox Ford, himself neither young nor pretty, had the grade A crumpet ‘coming at him like kamikazes’.) Germaine Greer may ...”

“... and psychological, of the writing career; its peaks and its decline; the tortuous involvement with FordMadox Ford; the family troubles and endless illnesses; the belated arrival of real fame just at a time when a younger generation of writers was ...”