Bibliography, News, and Notes: Ford Madox Ford

201 BIBLIOGRAPHY, NEWS, AND NOTES FORD MDOX FORD By Robert C. Schweik We published an annotated bibliography of writings about Ford in EFT, I: 2 (1958), 2-19; Frank MacShane's supplement in ibid, IV: 2 TT^6l), 19-20; and MacShane's bibliography of collections of Ford's letters, manuscripts, periodical publications, introductions, prefaces , and miscellaneous contributions to books by others in ibid, IV: 2 (I96I), 11-18. We have published additional abstracts in various numbers since I96I, most recently by Philip Armato in ELT, X: 4 (I967), 214-19, and by Robert Schweik in ELT, XIII: 1 (1970"ΓΓ"^6-50. Robert C. Schweik (State University College, Fredonia, N. Y.) will continue to abstract items appearing currently. Ambrose, Gordon Jr. "A Diamond of Pattern: The War of F. Madox Ford," Sewanee Review, LX (Autumn 1962), 464-83. The war in Parade's End has often been ignored in favor of the peacetime sections; in fact, the focus of the novel is at the point where war and peace meet "in the unique angle of vision that danger, and especially war, creates." FMF's soldiers are each a "homo duplex: a poor fellow whose body is tied in one place but whose mind and personality brood eternally over another distant locality ." Andreach, Robert F. The Slain and Ressurected God: Conrad, Ford, and the Christian Myth (NY: New York UP, 1970), pp. 120-207. From the Conrad-FMF collaboration on The Inheritors. Romance, and The Nature of a Crime emerged an archetypal pattern which became a dominant structural principle in the later work of both: "The hero encounters a female who offers him a glimpse of another dimension of reality. He then descends Into the underworld, where he is expected to subdue the dark forces of evil, a necessary trial before he can rejoin her. Having accomplished this goal expected of him, he returns to her with a 'sense of recovered power. . . .·" This pattern appears in FMF's later work in the form of a cultural quest to revitalize a dead god - the cultural heritage - by ressurecting the Son (1. e., the Christian myth) which is revitalized for FMF's age. Variants FMF works on this pattern are discussed in analyses of The Young Lovell, The Good Soldier, and Parade's End. [Reductive and unrevealing.] Andrew, Kiril. "Death Was the Mistress," American Dialog. Ill (Summer I966), 35-36. Accepts Hemingway's judgment of FMF in A Moveable Feast. ~ Brown, Ashley. "The Achievement of Caroline Gordon," Southern Humanities Review, II (Summer 1968), 279-90. Caroline Gordon is a "conscious heiress of the central tradition of modern fiction . . . the Impressionist novel," and she has freely acknowledged her indebtedness to FMF as a teacher of the techniques of fiction. Conrad, Borys. My Father: Joseph Conrad (NY: Coward-McCann, 1970), pp. 11, 31,"59-60. [Two brief references and one short personal anecdote.] Delbaere-Garant, J. »'Who shall Inherit England?': A Comparison Between Howards End, Parade's End and Uncondltlonal Surrender," English Studies, L (Feb 1969), 101-5. The Forster novel, the FMF tetralogy, and the Waugh trilogy all have similar endings: in each "an illegitimate child inherits a family property which 202 symbolizes England." The differences lie in that they reveal "on their authors' part divergent responses to the social transformation of England," and the disparate viewpoints taken sug7 gest Forster's hopeful liberal humanism, FMF's aristocratic temperament (obliged to recognize the decay of his own class and the need to turn to the liberal tradition), and Waugh's pessimistic view of the future. Hall, Donald. "The Art of Poetry V: Ezra Pound," Paris Review, VII (Summer-Fall 1962), 22-51. In an interview, Ezra Pound speaks of his association with FMF. He credits FMF for having helped him to "freshness of language" and says that FMF was able to influence Yeats' work through him. Healey, Eleanor C. "Imagist Dialogue," Dissertation Abstracts, XXIX (1968), 3612A. [Includes discussion of FMF's influence on the Imagist movement.] Henighan, T. J. "Mr. Eransdon: A Ford Lampoon of Conrad?" American Notes and Queries. VIII (Sept 1969). 3-5. *nd VIII (Oct 1969T. 20-22. In FMF's The Simple Life Limited, finished in 1911 when his squabble...