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“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... so much on brilliant ‘effects’, successes would be particularly palpable. But further, as FordMadox Ford conveys in innumerable anecdotes of him, Conrad had enormous zest and simply was not a mere limping and suffering victim. Though ...”

“... the predictability itself. ‘Before everything a story must convey a sense of inevitability,’ FordMadox Ford once wrote,that which happens in it must seem to be the only thing that could have happened. Of course a character may cry: ‘If I ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... speaks for is one that most of us, gratefully or not, are ready to think defunct: the Britain of FordMadox Ford in 1913-15, which was host to Wyndham Lewis’s earliest paintings, to the sculpture of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, and to Ezra Pound’s ...”

“... to Australia, ‘this time for life-long exile’. It is a novel, you might say, bred out of FordMadox Ford, Evelyn Waugh and Nancy Mitford, and is by no means without interest. It does not help, though, to say, as Michael Holroyd seems ...”