Word: madox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...printed in 23 issues of the Little Review (1914-29) over a period of three years. The poems of William Butler Yeats and The Waste Land of T. S. Eliot first appeared in the Dial (1880-1929). For the single year that it survived, transatlantic review, edited by Ford Madox Ford in Paris, gave voice to such American expatriates of the 1920s as Ezra Pound and Ernest Hemingway. This Quarter, another European-based review, published the early writings of Aldous Huxley...
...displayed in Paris in 1855, French Critic Theophile Gautier wrote: "In the whole salon, there is perhaps no painting that disturbs one's vision as much as this one." Carrying Corn, a harvest scene of almost hallucinatory brightness, was painted out of doors by another Pre-Raphaelite, Ford Madox Brown, in 1854, and the diary he kept reads not a little like Van Gogh's. "Intensely miserable," Brown noted at one point. "Very hard up, and a little...
Their Left Bank apartment was the living room of the Lost Generation. Through it passed every star in the artistic firmament between the two World Wars-Hemingway and Fitzgerald, Picasso and Matisse, T. S. Eliot and Sherwood Anderson, Ford Madox Ford and Carl Van Vechten. Three generations of young writers came for guidance to the Paris salon of Gertrude Stein and her lifelong companion, Alice B. Toklas. Novelists, composers, poets, painters and playwrights sipped the fragrant colorless liqueurs of the two U.S.-born hostesses (which they made themselves from plums and raspberries), dined on such Toklas specialties as Bass...
...Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier...
...MOVEABLE FEAST, by Ernest Hemingway. Funny, if often unkind, inside reminiscences of the literati (Gertrude Stein, Ford Madox Ford, Scott Fitzgerald) who befriended the young unknown writer in his Paris springtime before The Sun Also Rises thrust him into their own outer-world of fame...