Ford Madox Hueffer, who later became Ford Madox Ford, was born on 17 December 1873 in Merton, Surrey, then a semi-rural district on the edge of London, and died on 26 June 1939 in Deauville, France. He was one of the most energetic and consequential literary figures of the transition from late Victorian culture to modernism: a novelist, poet, memoirist, critic, editor, propagandist, literary theorist, and tireless ad…
“The only sound technical rules are those that are founded on a study of what pleases: if what you write is to please you must see how your predecessors did it.”
Neighbourhood:
Edwardian Poets, Imagist Poets, Modernist Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Wonder, Tenderness
Frank Stuart Flint was born on December 19, 1885, in Islington, London, into circumstances that would have crushed a lesser spirit but instead forged one of the most influential yet underappreciated figures in early twentieth-century English literature. He died on February 28, 1960, leaving behind a legacy that Ford Madox Ford would describe as that of "one of the greatest men and one of the beautiful spirits of the…
“Direct treatment of the “thing”, whether subjective or objective.”
Neighbourhood:
Edwardian Poets, Imagist Poets, Modernist Poets
Emotional landscape: Wonder, Longing, Spirituality
