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A Lot of Travail

Michael Wood: T.S. Eliot’s Letters, 3 December 2009

The Letters of T.S. Eliot, Vol. II: 1923-25 
edited by Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton.
Faber, 878 pp., £35, November 2009, 978 0 571 14081 7
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... Land, he said, was ‘neither a success nor a failure – simply a struggle’, and he teased FordMadox Ford by telling him he thought there were ‘about thirty good lines in The Waste Land, can you find them?’ The poem has 434 lines. ...

Memories of Frank Kermode

Stefan Collini, Karl Miller, Adam Phillips, Jacqueline Rose, James Wood, Michael Wood and Wynne Godley, 23 September 2010

... left this argument, returning to it in The Art of Telling, and near the end of his life in work on FordMadox Ford and E.M. Forster. He wanted to push this mid-century French tussle between realists and anti-realists back a bit, into modernism; it ...

The Last London

Iain Sinclair, 30 March 2017

... Olympic sideshows and secure arms trading. And much of it Chinese owned. Jarman’s title recalled FordMadox Brown’s painting of 1855, depicting the artist and his wife as emigrants shipping out to Australia, part of an economic migration of around 350,000 disaffected British ...

Leave off saying I want you to be savages

Sandra Gilbert: D.H. Lawrence, 19 March 1998

D.H. Lawrence: Dying Game 1922-30 
by David Ellis.
Cambridge, 814 pp., £25, January 1998, 0 521 25421 3
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... the ‘authentic projects’ delineating the ‘unvoiced’ life of the working classes that FordMadox Ford and others wanted from him – he was hardly the bored sophisticate that Eliot affected to be. Of his own early relationship with ...

Drowned in Eau de Vie

Modris Eksteins: New, Fast and Modern, 21 February 2008

Modernism: The Lure of Heresy from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond 
by Peter Gay.
Heinemann, 610 pp., £20, November 2007, 978 0 434 01044 8
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... as Matei Calinescu has said, an ‘aesthetic thanatophilia’. Richard Howard, in his homage to FordMadox Ford, called the modern ‘that all-inclusive negative’. Death was both figurative and literal, evident in the mechanisation of the world ...

Condy’s Fluid

P.N. Furbank, 25 October 1990

A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture 
by Samuel Hynes.
Bodley Head, 514 pp., £20, October 1990, 0 370 30451 9
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Killing in Verse and Prose, and Other Essays 
by Paul Fussell.
Bellew, 294 pp., £9.95, October 1990, 0 947792 55 4
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... history’: he offers such notions about history almost as if he were actually endorsing them. FordMadox Ford was never more Fordian than when he wrote in the manuscript of No Enemy in 1919: If, before the war, one had any function it was that ...

Writing Machines

Tom McCarthy: On Realism and the Real, 18 December 2014

... no more, no less – and is therefore as laden with artifice as any other literary convention. FordMadox Ford, in a passage from Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance, brilliantly skewers the claim that a certain prose style – that of realism ...

Narcissism and its Discontents

Mary-Kay Wilmers, 21 February 1980

Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography 
by Jean Rhys.
Deutsch, 173 pp., £4.95, November 1980, 0 233 97213 7
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Jean Rhys: A Critical Study 
by Thomas Staley.
Macmillan, 140 pp., £10, November 1980, 0 333 24522 9
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My Blue Notebooks 
by Liane de Pougy, translated by Diana Athill.
Deutsch, 288 pp., £7.50, October 1980, 0 233 97141 6
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The Maimie Papers 
edited by Ruth Rosen and Sue Davidson.
Virago, 450 pp., £9.95, September 1980, 0 86068 114 9
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Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough 
by Hugo Vickers.
Weidenfeld, 299 pp., £8.95, September 1980, 0 297 77652 5
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... went – ‘this is one of the reasons I believe in Fate.’ Fate subsequently introduced her to FordMadox Ford and the notebooks ‘were the foundation for Voyage in the Dark’: with that uncharacteristically proud announcement the ...
Literature and Popular Culture in 18th-Century England 
by Pat Rogers.
Harvester, 215 pp., £22.50, April 1985, 0 7108 0981 6
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Eighteenth-Century Encounters: Studies in Literature and Society in the Age of Walpole 
by Pat Rogers.
Harvester, 173 pp., £22.50, April 1985, 0 7108 0986 7
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Order from Confusion Sprung: Studies in 18th-Century Literature from Swift to Cowper 
by Claude Rawson.
Allen and Unwin, 431 pp., £30, August 1985, 0 04 800019 1
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Jonathan Swift 
edited by Angus Ross and David Woolley.
Oxford, 722 pp., £6.95, June 1984, 0 19 281337 4
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... Fielding, Cleland and the Joyce of Ulysses are compared on the jargon of morality; Fielding and FordMadox Ford on authorial intrusiveness; Fielding and Richardson on a question of moral obtuseness. Some of these are glancing blows, and are ...

My Books

Ian Patterson, 4 July 2019

... because of their contents, their history, their value, or their associations. My Wyndham Lewis, FordMadox Ford or Mary Butts collections, 1930s stuff (though I sold my complete set of the Left Book Club many years ago), first editions by prewar ...

No more alimony, tra la la

Miranda Carter: Somerset Maugham, 17 December 2009

The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham 
by Selina Hastings.
John Murray, 614 pp., £25, September 2009, 978 0 7195 6554 0
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... like Lady St Helier, and grandes dames like Violet Hunt, a former mistress of H.G. Wells and FordMadox Ford. He now established himself as a prolific writer of novels, short stories and plays, and perfected his public persona: polite but ...

Diary

Max Hastings: Letters from the Front, 10 September 2015

... Scott-James, was a literary critic, a sombre, self-consciously intellectual figure, a friend of FordMadox Ford and Thomas Hardy. In 1912, he had published an essay in which he expressed satisfaction that, in the new age of specialisation, future ...

Magical Orange Grove

Anne Diebel: Lowell falls in love again, 11 August 2016

Robert Lowell in Love 
by Jeffrey Meyers.
Massachusetts, 288 pp., £36.50, December 2015, 978 1 62534 186 0
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... learned of the request, he hit his father. In 1937 Lowell dropped out of Harvard and followed FordMadox Ford to Allen Tate’s farm in Tennessee. At a writers’ conference in Colorado that summer, he met Stafford, a pretty graduate student ...

Flight of Snakes

Tessa Hadley: Emily Holmes Coleman, 7 September 2023

The Shutter of Snow 
by Emily Holmes Coleman.
Faber, 171 pp., £9.99, February, 978 0 571 37520 2
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... for a while as Goldman’s secretary) to Peggy Guggenheim – as well as Edwin and Willa Muir, FordMadox Ford and Ernest Hemingway. She crops up in everyone’s memoirs, and seems to have been very close to Guggenheim, but she wasn’t just a ...

Hemingway Hunt

Frank Kermode, 17 April 1986

Along with Youth: Hemingway, the Early Years 
by Peter Griffin.
Oxford, 258 pp., £12.95, March 1986, 0 19 503680 8
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The Young Hemingway 
by Michael Reynolds.
Blackwell, 291 pp., £14.95, February 1986, 0 631 14786 1
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Hemingway: A Biography 
by Jeffrey Meyers.
Macmillan, 646 pp., £16.95, March 1986, 0 333 42126 4
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... to himself as he was to most other writers, including some he certainly did learn from, like FordMadox Ford, Gertrude Stein and Sherwood Anderson. Yet very good writers, including ...

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