“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... along with the speaker at ‘the words “Slack”, “erect” and “Cox”’ in a passage from FordMadox Ford – but also as sufficiently new to the world to need telling with some firmness that illusionistic realism is ‘a literary ...”

“... Philistine, admirably qualified to be the wife of the Mayor of Brighton’; and, best of all, FordMadox Ford, telling a Russian émigré that rye was England’s largest crop, but that the most profitable crop was ‘a very tall cabbage, the ...”

“... the influence of a book he never found, but from which he regularly quotes: The Soul of London by FordMadox Ford. He haunts the special collections of a Jewish bookseller who warns the young man, on the telephone, that he will very soon have to ...”

“... took a suspicious and fascinated interest) – with similar consequences. Not many years later FordMadox Ford made the desirable Valentine Wannop (why, though, did he give her that despairing name?) a feminist and a Classical scholar. Gissing ...”

“... Ryder, a long novel which included a veiled attack on her father. She met Hemingway, Pound, Joyce, FordMadox Ford, Man Ray, Brancusi. She and Thelma slotted in neatly with the American expats Stein called the ‘Lost Generation’. Thelma was lost ...”

“... 1899, the novel had become a universally valid form, ‘the book par excellence’; according to FordMadox Ford, in 1930, it was still indispensable, ‘the only source to which you can turn to ascertain how your fellows spend their entire ...”

“... in context, though the effect being aimed at is indicated when Jerry is shown reading Conrad and FordMadox Ford. The Little Drummer Girl (1983) features an Israeli operative called Kurtz whose actions are similarly shrouded in uncertainty: ‘At ...”

“... The conversion of Ford’s novel into a television play was an enterprise even more foolhardy than the BBC’s Golden Bowl some years back. The adapter must at once resign himself to the sacrifice of dozens of ambiguities and implications, for they are made possible by purely novelistic means – in this instance, by the taste of the narrator for seeming irrelevance, for digressions that do not digress, for missing apparently obvious connections and for insisting hysterically upon others that look imaginary and without point, Ford professed to despise story: the idea was, by using all the available liberty of discourse, to represent an ‘affair’ in such a way as to extract every drop of meaning from it, which you could not do if you recounted it in story sequence ...”

“... compared Coppard to Hardy, Kipling and D.H. Lawrence, and he was acclaimed by (among others) FordMadox Ford, Malcolm Cowley and, later, Doris Lessing. Though his most productive decade was the 1920s, and he was well enough known by 1931 for a ...”

“... or – by Conrad’s own account – especially attractive’. There are whiffs of Galsworthy and FordMadox Ford in this sentence of Najder’s, especially the phrase about ‘humble origin’, and I suspect some misunderstanding. Conrad may have ...”

“... detailed review of volumes of verse by Philip Larkin and Geoffrey Hill; there are notes on FordMadox Ford, Saint-John Perse and many others. And above all there is a beautiful, puzzled essay on Cavafy in which Auden, who firmly believes you ...”

“... Rodker she met many of the major Modernists: her diaries record encounters with Pound, Lewis, FordMadox Ford and, during a brief period when she moved on the fringes of Bloomsbury, Roger Fry. Butts registers their comments, advice and obiter ...”

“... between the generations, and the punishments the heart endures for not knowing how to grow old. (FordMadox Ford called it ‘that really greatest of all renderings of atrocious love – of atrociously painful love’, and said that when he wrote ...”