Wyndham Lewis Summary

In his long life Wyndham Lewis produced a remarkable quantity and variety of artistic work. He began his career as a painter and became one of the greatest English artists of the century, known for hi... Read more

In the following excerpt from an early review, Taylor finds the "noise and fury" of Lewis's satire in The Wild Body distasteful In The Wild Body Mr. Wyndham Lewis finds matter for... Read more

In the following excerpt, Anspaugh argues that the protagonist of Lewis's story "The Doppelgänger" can be seen to represent Lewis's friend Ezra Pound, while the �... Read more

In the following essay, the foreword to his volume of stories Rotting Hill, Lewis characterizes his work in the collection as showcasing the "universal wreckage and decay"prevalent in po... Read more

In the following excerpt, Kenner contends that the protagonist of Lewis's short story "Cantelman 's Spring-Mate " is a fusion of two characters, Tarr and Kreisler, from his... Read more

In the following essay, Materer discusses Lewis's comic theory and sense of irony in The Wild Body, arguing that the narrator of the sequence of stories, Ker-Orr, like Lewis, views the world fr... Read more

In the following essay, Chapman examines the development of Lewis's style and themes in his early stories and their later revision in The Wild Body, pointing out that Lewis's early socio... Read more

In the following excerpt, Anspaugh examines Lewis's critical reaction to the writings of Virgina Woolf and James Joyce. It has been with considerable shaking in my shoes … that I have ta... Read more

In the following excerpt, Edwards declares Lewis more successful as a visual artist, and explores Lewis's short story “The Death of the Ankou.” The least manageable of modernist w... Read more

In the following essay, Tuma discusses Vorticist tenets as evidenced by the material Lewis wrote or accepted for the journal Blast. Several critics and literary historians have noted Wyndham Lewis�... Read more

In the following excerpt, Klein places Lewis within the early twentieth-century's avant-garde, and declares Lewis's play, The Enemy of the Stars, an important example of Vorticist art. W... Read more

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), ... Read more

In the following excerpt, Sherry examines Lewis's visual art as well as his body of written work to support his claim that Lewis failed to present a philosophically cohesive, unified body of wo... Read more