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“... the end of his life that he had ‘never been part and parcel of the England he has loved’; told FordMadox Ford (if the latter, so often untrustworthy, is to be believed) that he had never been ‘absolutely in the inner circle’ of ...”

“... 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. ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”