Blondel, Nathalie, and Nathalie Blondel. “Foreword”. Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life: A Biography, McPherson, p. xv - xix.
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Wyndham Lewis
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Standard Name: Lewis, Wyndham
WL
was an early twentieth-century artist and writer: novelist, poet, playwright, periodical editor, commentator on literature and society, and above all a satirist and lampooner of many of his contemporaries. He was the leading spirit in the art movement known as Vorticism. His political writings included some ill-advised praise of Hitler
during the early 1930s. He also published an autobiography.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Naomi Mitchison | NM
's adult friends included artists and writers such as Gertrude Hermes
, Storm Jameson
, Goldie Lowes Dickinson
, Julian Trevelyan
, Gerald Heard
, and Rudi Messel
. Among the close friends were... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Butts | During this time MB
became acquainted with Wyndham Lewis
and Ford Madox Ford
as well as Hamnett
and Fry
. She was a good friend of the strong feminist Wilma Meikle
. “Mary Butts Papers”. Beinecke Rare Book Room and Manuscript Library, Yale University. |
| Friends, Associates | Harriet Shaw Weaver | As editor, HSW
attempted to recruit Storm Jameson
for the paper, but Jameson unhappily could not accept a full-time position. She also began to acquaint herself with contributors, such as H. D.
, whom she... |
| Friends, Associates | Marianne Moore | MMmade her modernist debut in New York in November 1915, meeting all the avant-garde. Williams, Mary-Kay. “What a Mother”. London Review of Books, Vol. 37 , No. 23, p. 19021. 20 |
| Friends, Associates | Lady Ottoline Morrell | LOM
's friendships were many and strongly felt. Developed mainly through her salons and other creative associations, they swept in Lytton Strachey
, Virginia Woolf
, Roger Fry
, Joseph Conrad
, T. S.
and... |
| Friends, Associates | Harriet Shaw Weaver | Before meeting James Joyce
but after becoming his patron, HSW
envisaged him as noble and ascetic. She was upset when in 1921 Wyndham Lewis
depicted Joyce to her as a drunken spendthrift. Joyce countered these... |
| Friends, Associates | Nancy Cunard | Her boredom with this life (her mother's social milieu) was something that she shared with her friend Iris Tree
, also a poet. Despite her antipathy towards it, this life presented her with important literary... |
| Friends, Associates | Ezra Pound | During his time in London, EP
met his future wife Dorothy Shakespear
, as well as Henry James
, Ford Madox Ford
, Wyndham Lewis
, and W. B. Yeats
. He also met... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Laura Riding | The volume was, says Elizabeth Friedmann
, largely a response to the ideas of Wyndham Lewis
. Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books. 114 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Virginia Woolf | Yet, though her voice (and her social and political views) were and would remain quite different from theirs, she was keenly attentive to the works of male contemporaries who were, like her, working to create... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Amanda McKittrick Ros | Lewis
's cautious review drew an ill-tempered and lengthy response generated by AMKR
's belief that he had also insulted Queen Victoria
(and to a lesser degree Disraeli
). She writes in the vitriolic fashion... |
| Leisure and Society | Amber Reeves | Soon after she came down from Cambridge the novelist Walter Lionel George
met AR
at a London party also attended by Ford Madox Hueffer
, Wyndham Lewis
, May Sinclair
, and Violet Hunt
... |
| Leisure and Society | Rebecca West | The pencil portrait that Wyndham Lewis
exhibited of Rebecca West
in 1932 caused Walter Sickert
to call him (in a telegram) the greatest portraitist of this or any other time. Campbell, Peter. “At the National Portrait Gallery”. London Review of Books, Vol. 30 , No. 17, p. 12. 12 |
| Leisure and Society | Violet Hunt | |
| Literary responses | Amanda McKittrick Ros | The Nonesuch edition of 1926 was reviewed for the Daily Mail by Wyndham Lewis
. He stepped cautiously (citing AMKR
's vehement response to Barry Pain
's review of the first edition as a warning... |
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