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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 | 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... |
| 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 | Rebecca West | Through them RW
met some important literary figures, including Wyndham Lewis
and contributors to Ford's journal, The English Review. |
| Friends, Associates | H. D. | After her move to England, Ezra Pound
introduced HD to his circle of friends, many of whom were important figures in the modernist movement. They included W. B. Yeats
, T. S. Eliot
,... |
| Friends, Associates | Violet Hunt | VH
entertained here frequently: her sometimes piquantly mixed invitation lists included the names of H. D.
, D. H. Lawrence
, Ezra Pound
, Joseph Conrad
, Wyndham Lewis
, Walter de la Mare
... |
| Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Later, however, Bloomsbury was attacked as an arrogant, self-regarding, immoral, upper-class clique. D. H. Lawrence
said Keynes and his friends were black beetles, and in Women in Love he attacked the group's aesthetic in... |
| Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Leonard Woolf wrote to Eliot, whose Prufrock and Other Observations he had read, to invite him to send some work to the Hogarth Press
. The letter led to a meeting, and ultimately to the... |
| Friends, Associates | Storm Jameson | She was once charged by Knopf
with the task of attempting to persuade Wyndham Lewis
to keep them as his American publisher, which she did on a cold, rainy day as vile as his temper... |
| 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 | Arnold Bennett | AB
's reviews, combined with his visibly privileged lifestyle, did not help his reputation among younger writers (such as those in the Bloomsbury Group
) as a wealthy snob or a philistine. Wyndham Lewis
attacked... |
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