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...which he could shoot marbles; at Cambridge he tried to act, but was poor at it; and he paid for his remarkable euphoria in fits of nervous depression. He was not always irresistible. Amy Lowell stood up and shouted "Speak up, speak up" at one of his readings; Ford Madox Ford elegantly rebuffed...
...have known him as co-editor of Moody & Lovett's A History of English Literature. The roll of his students who made the grade as professional writers reads like a partial Who's Who of U.S. authors. Some of them: John Gunther, Vincent Sheean, Glenway Wescott, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Vardis Fisher, Harry Hansen, Helen Hull, Janet Planner...
Literary Legends. The friends of James who published their reminiscences of him after his death-especially Ford Madox Hueffer-romanticized, to say the least. Nowell-Smith has taken incidents and opinions and anecdotes from a hundred-odd sources-H. G. Wells, Edith Wharton, Mrs. Joseph Conrad, J. M. Barrie, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, Arnold Bennett -and assembled them in the form of a dossier. The result is as absorbing as a good mystery story...
...women come and go, Talking of Michelangelo"-); Rupert Brooke's War Sonnets; Joyce Kilmer's Trees; Vachel Lindsay's General William Booth Enters Into Heaven, She gave the first critical recognition to Wallace Stevens, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Karl Shapiro. In Poetry D. H. Lawrence, Ford Madox Ford and Rabindranath Tagore got their first U.S. hearings. # Copyright by permission of Harcourt, Brace...
Hark, Hark, the Lark. For the more dignified, there were such things as the sonnet-writing contests held regularly in the home of Ford Madox Ford-a lively old Briton who loved to reminisce about his experiences in World War I. "It was in No Man's Land," Ford would say reflectively: "We were making a night attack. I had gone ahead to reconnoiter. I was crawling along on my-er-stomach when suddenly, above the roar of battle, I heard a sound-it was larks singing. Then I looked up and saw that it was light...