Word: madox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Audience's poetic whimsies represent the prevailing tone, the three most interesting poems are in a more serious vein. Arthur Freeman's two pieces remind one of the psychological narrative of Ford Madox Ford: the first one with its use of colors, the second with its mutely horror-stricken irony and its dramatic development. Freeman's contributions are by far the most sincere and effective ones in the issue. John Hollander's and Richard Howard's joint whirl into impressionism is the only other serious poem which need be taken seriously. Sandra Hochman's two poems, however, at least...
Died. A. E. (for Alfred Edgar) Coppard, 79, who gave up clerking at 41 to concentrate on writing, became known as the author of vivid, atmospheric short stories (The Higgler, Adam and Eve .and Pinch Me); of a stroke; in London. Novelist Ford Madox Ford's evaluation: "Almost the first English prose writer to get into English prose the peculiar quality of English lyric poetry...
...childhood and youth (the first volume of his autobiography). When he was five, Joseph Conrad took him into the garden and taught him to sail a boat ("the sail was a . . . sheet tied . . . to a clothes prop . . . The green grass heaved in waves . . . our speed was terrific"). Novelist Ford Madox Ford showed him how to "twitch one ear without moving the other"; he went for a drive "accompanied by Henry James riding a bicycle," and a man named Jack Galsworthy, who had bookish aspirations, taught him to keep his head when others all about were losing theirs, by taking charge...
...more from confusion than obscurity. In the case of George Kelly's review of Hawkes' "The Beetle Leg," it is freely admitted confusion, mixed with strong admiration for Hawkes' bold style. But J. W. (he is nowhere identified further) has endowed his review of "The Good Soldier," by Ford Madox Ford, with such a profusion of character analyses and interpretations of theme that it is muddy going indeed. Louis Begley's critique of a volume of Stephen Mallarme's poems, however, is a straightforward and seemingly well-informed...
...first number of the Guild's booklet Wings, under Editor in Chief Carl Van Doren. For a while, the Guild tried to find books that "will be permanently important." It chose the work of such writers as Poet Edwin Arlington Robinson, Novelists Aldous Huxley, Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Historian Claude Bowers. When Publisher Nelson Doubleday took over in 1934, all that changed. Guild Judge Burton Rascoe gave Guild members ten Doubleday books out of 13 in 1935. That vulnerable policy changed too; nowadays, very few Doubleday books get the Guild nod (two in 1950, none...