Portraits From Life Ford Madox Ford 9781447461586 Books
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This early work by Ford Madox Ford was originally published in 1937 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. Ford Madox Ford was born Ford Madox Hueffer in Merton, Surrey, England on 17th December 1873. The creative arts ran in his family - Hueffer's grandfather, Ford Madox Brown, was a well-known painter, and his German émigré father was music critic of The Times - and after a brief dalliance with music composition, the young Hueffer began to write. Although Hueffer never attended university, during his early twenties he moved through many intellectual circles, and would later talk of the influence that the "Middle Victorian, tumultuously bearded Great" - men such as John Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle - exerted on him. In 1908, Hueffer founded the English Review, and over the next 15 months published Thomas Hardy, H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, John Galsworthy and W. B. Yeats, and gave débuts to many authors, including D. H. Lawrence and Norman Douglas. Hueffer's editorship consolidated the classic canon of early modernist literature, and saw him earn a reputation as of one of the century's greatest literary editors. Ford's most famous work was his Parade's End tetralogy, which he completed in the 1920's and have now been adapted into a BBC television drama. Ford continued to write through the thirties, producing fiction, non-fiction, and two volumes of autobiography Return to Yesterday (1931) and It was the Nightingale (1933). In his last years, he taught literature at the Olivet College in Michigan. Ford died on 26th June 1939 in Deauville, France, at the age of 65.
Portraits From Life Ford Madox Ford 9781447461586 Books
Written late in his life (1936-37; Ford died in 1939), this book collects 11 essays on well-known literary luminaries Ford had known personally. They include Henry James, Stephen Crane, W.H. Hudson, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, H.G. Wells, John Galsworthy, D.H. Lawrence, Ivan Turgenev, Theodore Dreiser, and Algernon Charles Swinburne. Each essay mainly relates Ford's personal take on each man rather than a discussion of each man's work. He was impressed with the talent of all these writers, some more than others. He thought Crane was the first American writer because he was "the first to be passionately interested in the life that surrounded him - and the life that surrounded him was that of America." (What about Mark Twain?) He didn't go along with Wells's belief in machines and economics; he believed to "have a living civilization we must have civilized hearts." When Ford first met Dreiser he says humorously that " when Mr. Dreiser said hurriedly that he had read all my books and liked them very much and I had replied just as hurriedly that I had read all his and liked them very much too, I was not lying as much as he was." He disliked Lawrence the most, man and books. Above all he felt that Turgenev was the ultimate master, the best writer and craftsman of all these writers and of all writers. One wonders at times exactly what audience Ford had in mind for these essays (despite himself: Ford always seems to have himself in mind) because they don't speak to the reader directly, though in spots they can be very interesting. By the end, though, I felt I wanted more than Ford delivered.Product details
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Portraits From Life Ford Madox Ford 9781447461586 Books Reviews
Ford Madox Ford's wry look at authors he had known, rendered as small sketches or vignettes of Henry James, Stephen Crane, Thomas Hardy, DH Lawrence, and others. A fun read, especially for readers who enjoy late 19th and early 20th century literature.
Written late in his life (1936-37; Ford died in 1939), this book collects 11 essays on well-known literary luminaries Ford had known personally. They include Henry James, Stephen Crane, W.H. Hudson, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, H.G. Wells, John Galsworthy, D.H. Lawrence, Ivan Turgenev, Theodore Dreiser, and Algernon Charles Swinburne. Each essay mainly relates Ford's personal take on each man rather than a discussion of each man's work. He was impressed with the talent of all these writers, some more than others. He thought Crane was the first American writer because he was "the first to be passionately interested in the life that surrounded him - and the life that surrounded him was that of America." (What about Mark Twain?) He didn't go along with Wells's belief in machines and economics; he believed to "have a living civilization we must have civilized hearts." When Ford first met Dreiser he says humorously that " when Mr. Dreiser said hurriedly that he had read all my books and liked them very much and I had replied just as hurriedly that I had read all his and liked them very much too, I was not lying as much as he was." He disliked Lawrence the most, man and books. Above all he felt that Turgenev was the ultimate master, the best writer and craftsman of all these writers and of all writers. One wonders at times exactly what audience Ford had in mind for these essays (despite himself Ford always seems to have himself in mind) because they don't speak to the reader directly, though in spots they can be very interesting. By the end, though, I felt I wanted more than Ford delivered.
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