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.

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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...
Friends, Associates Edith Sitwell
By 1919 ES was also friendly with Arnold Bennett and his wife Marguerite . Wyndham Lewis became a great friend, did many drawings of her, and demonstrated a sexual interest in her as well, which...
Friends, Associates Katherine Mansfield
A month before her last departure from Paris, KM met Wyndham Lewis .
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press, 1982.
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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 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 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.
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, No. 23, 3 Dec. 2015, p. 19021.
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Her friendship with Ezra Pound began by letter in 1918. She had already written a poem titled with his...
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...
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...
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, 2005.
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LR sets out to free the poet from the restrictions imposed by the synthetic or collective notion...
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...
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.
qtd. in
Campbell, Peter. “At the National Portrait Gallery”. London Review of Books, Vol.
30
, No. 17, 11 Sept. 2008, p. 12.
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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 Violet Hunt
VH chose to dress in bold colours prominent in the Vorticist aesthetic, and commissioned Wyndham Lewis , one of the movement's leaders, to create an abstract decoration for one of her rooms. West described the...
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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