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 trilogy with a sequel rather than a tetralogy.

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 particularly on the symbolism of the main characters and their interactions with one another.

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 as four separate novels published together for the first time.

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.

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 the following essay, Kennedy identifies comedic elements in Parade's End.

In the following essay, Firebaugh contends that Parade's End is best read as an allegory.

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 conformity as hallmarks of social stability in Parade's End.

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 examination of post-World War I epic novels, Bradbury suggests that Ford juxtaposed in Parade's End Edwardian realism with Modernist experimental techniques to demonstrate the passing of Tietjens' way of life.

In the following excerpt, Ohmann compares Parade's End with The Good Soldier.

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 expression, endeavoring to replicate the idiomatic cadences of American speech. In the following essay, which was first published in 1951, he focuses on the significance of Sylvia in the transition of Christopher Tietjens throughout the novel, and suggests that Tietjens is not "the last Tory," but ...

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 End and their function in what he considers to be Ford's melancholy treatment of society in transition.

In the following excerpt Bergonzi discusses the effects of World War I as presented in Parade's End.

In the following essay, Tobyansen offers a thematic overview of Parade's End and discusses the novel's principal characters.

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 critic.

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 both.

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 American prose writing since the era of William Dean Howells. In the following review of the first paperback edition of Parade's End, which appeared more than fifty years after the four novels of the tetralogy were originally published, Kazin examines Romantic elements in Parade's End.

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-called "stepchildren of literature. "MacShane's works combine narrative and critical insight in an effort to rescue some relatively forgotten authors from what he considers their undeserved obscurity. In the following excerpt, he examines form and technique in Parade's End.

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 contends that the work is best understood from a historical distance.

In the following review of A Man Could Stand Up, Crawford characterizes Ford's Tietiens series as a modern-day epic.

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 South. In the following review of Parade's End, he calls the tetralogy "a minor performance," asserting that Ford was unable to create a convincing portrait of a politically conservative character.

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 1920s. In the following review of Parade's End, he suggests that Ford is the literary equal of James Joyce, Marcel Proust, and Franz Kajka.

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 End reflects Ford's belief that people will attempt to avoid loneliness and isolation at all costs.

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.