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When it comes to literary name dropping, English Novelist-Critic David Garnett has practically no peers. At 70, he can look back to a childhood spent in the company of literary lights like Joseph Conrad, Henry James, "Jack" Galsworthy, Ford Madox Ford. His father was a prominent publisher; his mother Constance was the industrious translator who gave a whole generation of English readers the feeling that all the great Russians (Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky) wrote in the same curiously flat style. With such parental credentials, "Bunny" Garnett became almost automatically a charter member of the post-World War I Bloomsbury group...
...magazine boasts short selections from the personal writings of distinguished men: Thornton Wilder, Mark Twain and William Dean Howells, Ford Madox Ford. These pieces are all interesting, but they have all been published before and were presumably included primarily to fill out the table of contents, and perhaps to help set the tone of the publication...
Were all U.S. fiction written by American regionalists. man's mind might often seem to have no mountains; all might appear one vast, pre-Freudian plane. There are deft, complex exceptions, such as Kentucky's unjustly forgotten Elizabeth Madox (The Time of Man) Roberts, Nevada-bred Walter Van Tilburg (The Ox-Bow Incident) Clark. But generally the regional writer is a landscape artist, pure and psychologically all too simple. What is best in his books is his sense of the soil, of the unspoken drama of work or conflict on the earth. In two new regional novels...
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...