“Scenes on the other hand presented with even a minimum of artistry will…” — Ford Madox Hueffer | V2Melody

“Scenes on the other hand presented with even a minimum of artistry will remain in the mind as long as life lasts.”

Artistic presentation can give experiences a permanence that ordinary information lacks · The English Novel

Ford Madox Hueffer

About Ford Madox Hueffer

Ford Madox Hueffer

17 December 1873–26 June 1939

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…

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“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.”

Enduring and widespread readership is presented as one sign of artistic greatness · The English Novel

“For it is a mistake to think that what looks like the rendering of an ordinary affair is ever an artless chronicling.”

Apparently effortless realism may conceal considerable artistic construction · The English Novel

“But the really great writer is not bound by the conventions of his day, nor, if he desires to give his reader a happy ending, need he select a wastrel like Jones as the recipient of his too easily bestowed favours.”

Great writers need not surrender their artistic judgement to contemporary convention · The English Novel