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POLITE ESSAYS-Ezra Pound-New Directions ($2.50). The casual but by no means languid prose of a great verse stylist. Sometimes crotchety, more often bright and sound, Ezra's remarks concern the works of Dante, Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, Harold Monro, Laurence Binyon ("The younger generation may have forgotten Binyon's sad youth, poisoned in the cradle by the abominable dogbiscuit of Milton's rhetoric.") Also his famous piece on "How to Read...
...most gifted living women novelists are Virginia Woolf, Willa Gather, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Elizabeth Bowen. Among these, the most promising future belongs to Elizabeth Bowen. With her fifth and best novel, The Death of the Heart, she comes to the literary maturity promised in her other four-promised as far back, in fact, as the 205, when she published her first short stories in The Dial. Plain readers should find her coming-of-age as congenial as the most exacting critic...
BLACK IS MY TRUELOVE'S HAIR-Elizabeth Madox Roberts-Viking...
...most "abominably unknown" contemporary writer, according to Ford Madox Ford, is Dorothy Richardson, a 56-year-old, myopic Englishwoman. During the past 23 years she has published eleven volumes (eight in the U. S.) of a lifework called Pilgrimage. Ford ranks her with Proust, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf as an inventor of the "stream of consciousness" technique, believes her obscurity is due to critics' and readers' distaste for distinguished writing...
...Powys and Ford belong to the same genus of bookworm, their appetites differ in numerous details. Ford Madox Ford, "an old man mad about writing," prefers his classical diet served with French sauce ("the Mediterranean as against the Nordic tradition"); his main concern is with "fine"' writing, literary form. Lively, rambling, witty, he is at his best in picking out single quotations; at his worst when he strays beyond "pure" literature, as when he declares Dostoyevsky to be "the greatest single influence on the world of today...