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…
“As regarding rhythm: to compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.”
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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 great art of the world is found in books that are familiar to millions, if not the world over, then, at any rate, down several ages of several continents.”
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