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Tom Crewe: ‘The Adventures of Caleb Williams’, 8 October 2020

... 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 ...

Lost Empire

D.J. Enright, 16 October 1980

Earthly Powers 
by Anthony Burgess.
Hutchinson, 650 pp., £6.95, October 1980, 0 09 143910 8
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... Toomey’s real-life colleagues in the arts get a bad press. H.G. Wells is ‘a satyromaniac’, FordMadox Ford has bad breath and a dirty mind, Norman Douglas is ‘filthy’ and ‘boy shagging’, T.S. Eliot is wrong about the Tarot pack and ...

Point of View

Frank Kermode: Atonement by Ian McEwan, 4 October 2001

Atonement 
by Ian McEwan.
Cape, 372 pp., £16.99, September 2001, 0 224 06252 2
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... that one is tempted to imagine that the best readers of this book might be Henry James and FordMadox Ford. It is, in perhaps the only possible way, a philosophical novel, pitting the imagination against what it has to imagine if we are to ...

Diary

Mary-Kay Wilmers: Karl Miller Remembered, 9 October 2014

... a point of view and an attitude and – as his pieces did – their own way of saying things (of FordMadox Ford, Clive James wrote in the Listener, ‘the grade A crumpet came at him like kamikazes’). He said he would publish anything as long ...

Posterity

Frank Kermode, 2 April 1981

God’s Fifth Column: A Biography of the Age, 1890-1940 
by William Gerhardie, Michael Holroyd and Robert Skidelsky.
Hodder, 360 pp., £11.95, March 1981, 0 340 26340 7
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Futility 
by William Gerhardie.
Penguin, 184 pp., £1.75, February 1981, 0 14 000391 6
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... to have time to achieve an understanding of what he was really up to. In some ways he resembles FordMadox Ford, though Ford was much more prolific, indeed embarrassingly ...

‘If I Could Only Draw Like That’

P.N. Furbank, 24 November 1994

The Gentle Art of Making Enemies 
by James McNeill Whistler.
Heinemann, 338 pp., £20, October 1994, 0 434 20166 9
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James McNeill Whistler: Beyond the Myth 
by Ronald Anderson and Anne Koval.
Murray, 544 pp., £25, October 1994, 0 7195 5027 0
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... lies (or ‘mythology’). But then, the objection suggests itself, Whistler was not quite a FordMadox Ford and did not positively demand to be believed. When he denied that he, a distinguished Southerner, could have been born in the horrid ...

Time and the Sea

Fredric Jameson, 16 April 2020

... many obstacles as in The Shadow-Line but reaches a different and more wondrous conclusion (Francis Ford Coppola borrowed it for Apocalypse Now, his film version of Heart of Darkness). Touching shore at long last in the dark, Marlow wakes from the sleep of exhaustion to a silent dawn: I opened my eyes … and then I saw the ...

I even misspell intellectual

Rupert Thomson: Caroline Gordon v. Flannery O’Connor, 2 April 2020

The Letters of Flannery O’Connor and Caroline Gordon 
edited by Christine Flanagan.
Georgia, 272 pp., £31.95, October 2018, 978 0 8203 5408 8
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... in 1948. Gordon had impeccable literary credentials. As a young writer, she had been mentored by FordMadox Ford, who had her read an early draft of her first novel, Penhally, out loud to him. She was edited by Maxwell Perkins, and had published ...

Big Head, Many Brains

Colin Burrow: H.G. Wells, 16 June 2011

A Man of Parts 
by David Lodge.
Harvill, 565 pp., £18.99, March 2011, 978 1 84655 496 4
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... to associate Edwardian male writers with jellied substances: she described being kissed by FordMadox Ford as ‘like being the toast under a poached egg’. Wells wrote about himself and his amours with what he thought was exemplary ...

Diary

Jenny Diski: Happiness, 23 September 2010

... once tried this thought out on a panel on a TV book show when we were talking about a biography of FordMadox Ford. There was general agreement that his had been a tragic life, evidenced by catastrophic love affairs, difficulty in writing and ...

Other Poems and Other Poets

Donald Davie, 20 September 1984

Notes from New York, and Other Poems 
by Charles Tomlinson.
Oxford, 64 pp., £4.50, March 1984, 0 19 211959 1
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The Cargo 
by Neil Rennie.
TNR Productions, 27 pp., January 1984
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Collected Poems 1943-1983 
by C.H. Sisson.
Carcanet, 383 pp., £14.95, April 1984, 0 85635 498 8
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... 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 ...

So Amused

Sarah Rigby: Fay Weldon, 11 July 2002

Auto da Fay 
by Fay Weldon.
Flamingo, 366 pp., £15.99, May 2002, 9780007109920
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... when Fay is 12, regales the girls with tales of her prewar meetings in London with figures such as FordMadox Ford, Ezra Pound (who apparently had a habit of playing her piano with his nose when drunk), H.G. Wells and E. Nesbit, who, Weldon’s ...

In the Spirit of Mayhew

Frank Kermode: Rohinton Mistry, 25 April 2002

Family Matters 
by Rohinton Mistry.
Faber, 487 pp., £16.99, April 2002, 0 571 19427 3
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... aware of the new techniques, new styles of ‘treatment’, currently being explored by Conrad and FordMadox Ford, and aware also of the new rules of the game as promulgated by Henry James with his passion for ‘doing’. Bennett greatly admired ...

Newfangled Inner Worlds

Adam Phillips: Malingering, 3 March 2005

Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War 
by Peter Barham.
Yale, 451 pp., £19.99, August 2004, 0 300 10379 4
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... suggesting that really to know what the war was like in terms of emotional terror we should read FordMadox Ford or Siegfried Sassoon. Though he is clearly torn between his literary inclinations (many of his epigraphs are from Ulysses, and he ...

Ejected Gentleman

Norman Page, 7 May 1987

John Galsworthy’s Life and Art: An Alien’s Fortress 
by James Gindin.
Macmillan, 616 pp., £35, March 1987, 0 333 40812 8
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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 ...

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