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“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... of individuals essential to the music they make. These talkers do not much converse, and soon FordMadox Ford was to break the news that modern art should show how in conversations the speakers do not listen to one another. Of the art of ...”

“... embellished by himself or the other gifted embellishers among whom he mostly lived. (Take a bow, FordMadox Ford, take two!) Pound tells the story (in Canto 74) of ‘Bunting/doing six months after that war was over/as pacifist tempted by chicken ...”

“... 1909. His literary career was thus one of several launched by the Review’s perceptive editor, FordMadox Ford (or Hueffer, as he then was). Lewis is said either to have thrust his bundle of manuscripts wordlessly into Hueffer’s hands, or to ...”