Victor M. Cassidy (essay date 1993)
SOURCE: “Who Was Wyndham Lewis?” in The New Criterion, Vol. II, No. 10, June, 1993, pp. 26-38.
[In the following excerpt, Cassidy presents biographical details of Lewis's childhood to explain his later inability to focus his art.]
Everyone seems to have heard of Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), but no one is quite sure who he was. He is known—more or less—as an artist, a novelist, a man of controversy, an associate of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, and a fascist. He was all these—and more. Lewis is a puzzle,...
Source: Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, ©2001 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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