Ezra Pound, Life and Work Jun 12, 2008
He moved to London, met Ford Madox Ford, and Wyndham Lewis, and published Exultations in 1909. He also quickly established himself as a strong advocate of experimental literature. (Suite101.com)
The saddest story Jun 7, 2008
Ford Madox Ford's personal life was deeply complicated, made worse by his own indecision and economy with the truth ... Julian Barnes on Ford Madox Ford ... In 1927, The Good Soldier was reissued as the first volume of a uniform edition of Ford Madox Ford's works. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Home from home May 17, 2008
Through a window by the side entrance a staircase is visible, which took Ford Madox Ford, William Carlos Williams, DH Lawrence and Pound's former fianc;e Hilda Doolittle (baptised by him "HD Imagiste") up to the first floor, where Pound sat by the gas ring, ready to make tea and pronounce on all things, in different languages ... Ford Madox Ford had founded the English Review the year before, just months after Pound's invasion, which was to prove the proper corner for his poetry, as Church Walk... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
A life of their own Jan 26, 2008
Ford Madox Ford writes wonderfully about getting a character up and running - what he calls "getting a character in". Ford and his friend Joseph Conrad loved a sentence from a Guy de Maupassant story: "He was a gentleman with red whiskers who always went first through a doorway." Ford comments: "that gentleman is so sufficiently got in that you need no more of him to understand how he will act. He has been 'got in' and can get to work at once.". (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
A Polish `orang laut' traveling the world of fiction Dec 2, 2007
For today's readers -- whether their interest is love stories, colonial history or the secrets of the sea -- the words of Conrad's friend, the novelist Ford Madox Ford, still apply: "If his ambition in writing was, as he has said, `before all, to make you see', he could in telling stories, in his dusky and affectionate tones and with his singular accent, make you see almost anything in the world.". Post Your Comments. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
The end of the affair Dec 1, 2007
Ford Madox Ford and Dame Edith Sitwell were two. "I noticed Greene started his autobiog the same time as his novel about school life. He gave up on the novel, it was too grim, but kept the autobiog alive. I think there was leakage between the two." So he did make it up. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Voyage of emptiness Aug 27, 2007
But the truly rich have their own levels, higher up, and their own eating places, and so it's only in the pub over a glass of Guinness or in the casino at the roulette wheel, that we've occasionally encountered what Ford Madox Ford called "the saving touch of insolence" that sometimes goes with great wealth ... And that, as Ford Madox Ford put it, that sorrowful emptiness inside the shell of luxury, is the saddest story of all. (Boston Globe)
Stars take classics to a digital generation Jun 3, 2007
Nighy, who plans to read his favourite book, Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford, said that the acting challenge was considerable. It's quite hard reading a book, as you have to do all the voices. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
THIS CHARMING MAN Jan 7, 2007
Authors like Ford Madox Ford and Hemingway inspired him, but the writing didn t happen. The youth-employment agency found him a job as a messenger boy for The Field magazine in London. (TimesOnline)
