Part 1: 1890-1910 Youth and the World of Tarr. Correspondents include: Wyndham Lewis’ mother, grandmother and T. Sturge Moore Part 2: 1910-1920 Blasting and Bombadiering . Correspondents include: J. B. Pinker, Augustus John, Ezra Pound, Herbert Read. Part 3: 1921-1939 ‘The Enemy’. Correspondents include: James Joyce, Osbert Sitwell, T. S. Eliot, Robert McAlmon, H. G. Wells, Y. B. Yeats Part 4: 1939-1945 Self-Condemned. Correspondents include: T. J. Honeyman, Geoffrey Stone, J. M. Dent & Son Ltd, David Kahma, Charles Nagel, Felix Giovanelli, Allen Tate. Part 5: 1945-1956 The Writer and the Absolute. Correspondents include: Nicholas Waterhouse, W. K. Rose, Charles Handley-Read, Theodore Weiss, Roy Campbell, I. A. Richards.
Biography
W. K. Rose was for many years a student of Wyndham Lewis, whom he knew personally. He was on the Faculty of Vassar College, USA.
‘It is, I believe, the best book of its kind… in this book Mr. Rose has shown that the editing of letters can be regarded as one of the fine arts: His running commentary and annotations have the authority of a freshly documented biography.’ Horace Gregory, The New York Times.
'The Letters... nail Lewis down as a brilliant, touchy Welshman with a splendid power of invective and insulting laughter…and give us a blurred view of his originality as an artist and of his glamour as a conspiratorial figure in literary and painting circles. ' V.S. Pritchett, New York Review of Books.
