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...page report is full of historical context and even literary allusions--Tolstoy, Ford Madox Ford, Santayana and James Thurber all work their way into its pages--but its real meat remains the results of the questionnaires, which have been floating around the administration for several months...
Poesy indeed. The "arthritic milieu" he encountered was not what this energy-packed, short-tempered, culture-hungry provincial had in mind at all. But Pound also found Yeats and Ford Madox Ford, who befriended him at once. To Yeats he explained his conviction that verse must be concrete and contain no superfluous words. The older poet was astonished at how many abstractions he had been using, and began to cut down. The streamlined effect on his writing was immediate...
...damn and blast my soul!" the Pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown used to warn his grandson. "I will turn you straight out of my house if you go in for any kind of commercial life." But he added: "Beggar yourself rather than refuse assistance to anyone whose genius you think shows promise of being greater than your own." Ford Madox Hueffer, the old artist's grandson, was born into the Rossetti circle. After World War I he changed his Germanic last name to Ford. His achievements included the authorship of 81 books, as well as the more...
...printed in 23 issues of the Little Review (1914-29) over a period of three years. The poems of William Butler Yeats and The Waste Land of T. S. Eliot first appeared in the Dial (1880-1929). For the single year that it survived, transatlantic review, edited by Ford Madox Ford in Paris, gave voice to such American expatriates of the 1920s as Ezra Pound and Ernest Hemingway. This Quarter, another European-based review, published the early writings of Aldous Huxley...
...displayed in Paris in 1855, French Critic Theophile Gautier wrote: "In the whole salon, there is perhaps no painting that disturbs one's vision as much as this one." Carrying Corn, a harvest scene of almost hallucinatory brightness, was painted out of doors by another Pre-Raphaelite, Ford Madox Brown, in 1854, and the diary he kept reads not a little like Van Gogh's. "Intensely miserable," Brown noted at one point. "Very hard up, and a little...