In the following review of A Man Could Stand Up, Crawford characterizes Ford's Tietiens series as a modern-day epic.
Ford Madox Ford has now reached the third of his monumental series of nov...
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In the following essay, Firebaugh contends that Parade's End is best read as an allegory.
Now that the extraordinary tetralogy, Parade's End, has been republished, we ought to recons...
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Walter is an American author and educator. In the following essay, he disputes the critical opinion that a well-crafted novel cannot be a political novel, citing Parade's End as an example of b...
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Young is an English author and editor whose works include book-length studies of D. H. Lawrence and Ford Madox Ford. In the following excerpt, he focuses attention on the characters of Parade's...
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Issacs in an American author and educator. In the following essay, he contrasts Parade's End with The Good Soldier, evaluating the two works based on Ford's own criteria as a literary cr...
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Gordon was an American author and educator. In the following essay, he offers a structural and thematic overview of No More Parades, the second novel of the Tietjens tetralogy.
How we find any writ...
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Meixner is an American author and educator. In the following excerpt, he analyzes Some Do Not, the first of the four Tietjens novels, and asserts that Parade's End should be considered a trilog...
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In the following excerpt, Ohmann compares Parade's End with The Good Soldier.
More obviously than The Good Soldier, the four novels Some Do Not … (1924), No More Parades (1925), A Man...
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In the following excerpt Bergonzi discusses the effects of World War I as presented in Parade's End.
Parde's End is a trilogy or a tetralogy, depending on whether one accepts the fina...
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An American author and educator whose publications include well-received biographies of Ford, Raymond Chandler, James Jones, and John O'Hara, MacShane has specialized in studies of the so-calle...
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In the following essay, Kennedy identifies comedic elements in Parade's End.
One can easily see Tietjens as a model of integrity, of morality, of pre-Edwardian honour and Christian long-suff...
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McFee was an English writer best known for his tales of adventures at sea. In the following excerpt, he offers a mixed review of The Last Post.
Readers will have this opinion and that about these n...
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In the following essay, Heldman contends that the progression of the fiction techniques used in the four novels in Parade's End represents the transition from Victorian to modern writing.
In...
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An English man of letters, Bradbury is best known as the author of such satiric novels as Eating People Is Wrong (1959) and Stepping Westward (1965). In the following excerpt from his comparative exam...
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Stang is an American writer and editor specializing in the study and criticism of the works of Ford Madox Ford. In the following excerpt, she provides an overview of Parade's End, focusing part...
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A highly respected American literary critic, Kazin is best known for his essay collections The Inmost Leaf (1955) and Contemporaries (1962), and particularly for On Native Grounds (1942), a study of A...
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Page is an English author, editor, and educator whose works include studies of Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and D. H. Lawrence. In the following essay, he examines Ford's treatment of ritual and ...
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Macauley is an American author and educator. In the following introduction to the first edition of Parade's End, he affirms that the tetralogy should be considered as a single work rather than ...
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Pickrel is an American author, educator, and critic whose reviews have appeared in Commentary, the New York Herald Tribune, and Book Week. In the following excerpt, he suggests that Parade's En...
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Gordon was an American author and educator whose works include The Good Soldier: A Key to the Novels of Ford Madox Ford (1963). In the following excerpt from a review of Parade's End, Gordon co...
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Morris was an American biographer, critic, social historian, essayist, and pioneering educator who is credited with introducing contemporary literature courses to the American university system in the...
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An American novelist, biographer, and critic, Basso is best known for Sun in Capricorn (1942), a novel which, like much of his work, explores the societal structure and cultural mores of the American ...
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In the following essay, Tobyansen offers a thematic overview of Parade's End and discusses the novel's principal characters.
Parade's End is a single volume containing four of ...
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Williams was one of America's most renowned poets of the twentieth century. Rejecting as overly academic the Modernist poetic style established by T S. Eliot, he sought a more natural poetic ex...
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Critical Essay by John W. Crawford
