Ford Madox Ford: An Annotated Checklist of Writings About Him

2. FORD MADOX FORD: AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST OF WRITINGS ABOUT HIM Edited by HeLmit E. Gerber Compiled and annotated by Richard A. Cassell (Dakota Wesleyan), Charles Green (Purdue), Richard J. Herndon (Rochester), Richard W. Lid (Michigan), Richard M. Ludwig (Princeton), H.E. Gerber (Purdue). The list which follows is dated June, 1958. We have included most items that a fairly methodical search turned up. If this has resulted in indiscriminate inclusion of many trivial items, for which the editor is solely responsible, it has also resulted in the inclusion of at least most important items, for which the editor's collaborators are largely responsible. With few exceptions, we have not included reviews, unpublished theses, and so on. For a list of some of these items the reader should consult the first issue of EFT as well as the list under Ford's name further on in the present number. Any reader knowing of any items omitted from the present checklist is encouraged to submit them to the editor. Similarly, the editor will be pleased to hear of any dissertations, completed or in progress, or other projects on Ford now in progress that were not listed in the first number of this publication. Annotations no doubt vary in "tell-taleness," but this is unavoidable if the individual annotator is to be allowed some leeway. The editor has felt this to be advisable. No attempt has been made in most cases to abstract writings on Ford. Annotations, in the editor's view, should suggest the content briefly, not paraphrase it. Generally, we have made no value judgments, although making them was not absolutely proscribed. This checklist will serve its purpose if it saves the scholar much routine labor, if it suggests the kind and quality of attention Ford's work has attracted, and if it provides c3.ues to the kind of studies that might profitably yet be undertaken. Aiken, Conrad. »The Function of Rhythm," DIAL, LXV (Nov. 10, 1918), 417-8. Review of ON HEAVEN AND OTHER POEMS. Compares F. with Wordsworth to suggest that "both poets perhaps underestimate the power of rhythm," Aldington, Richard. LIFE FOR LIFE'S SAKE. N.Y.: Viking, 1941, pp. 14959 , Ffs literary secretary and Miss Hunt's confidant in 1914 traces F's relationship with Violet from 1909 to 1914. F's work unjustly neglected because of his personal human failings. ----------------- «The Poetry of Ezra Pound," EGOIST, II (May 1, 1915), 71-72. Pound fails in combining Yeats"s romanticism with F's realism, Aldridge, John M. IN SEARCH OF HERESY. N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, 1956, pp. 28, 95, 100-102. Analysis of the opening of SOME DO NOT in an essay on how the "order of society" affects characterisation, Allen, Walter. THE ENGLISH NOVEL. Lond.t Phoenix House, 1954; N.Y.: Dutton, 1955, PP. 394-99. In THE GOOD SOLDIER and the Tietjens novels, F. "depersonalized" his own emotional problems into the realm of art and gave us, by means of a kaleidoscopic shift of time, a portrait of the Edwardian gentleman stoically bound to a code of life that would cause him to suffer. Anderson, Margaret C. MY THIRTY YEARS' WAR: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. N.Y.: Covici Friede, 1930, pp. 159, 164. Brief ref. to contributions to the LITTLE REVIEW, which published the series "Men and Women." Anderson, Sherwood. "The Legacies of Ford Madox Ford," CORONET, VIII (Aug. 1940), 135-36; rept in MEMOIRS (N.Y.: Harcourt, 1942), 479-80. A sympathetic view of F's "real fictions." ------------------ LETTERS, ed. H. M. Jones. Boston: Little, Brown 1953, p. 457. Explains to mother what he tried to do in the CORONET article on F (see above). Angeli, Helen Rossetti. PRE-RAPHAELITE TWILIGHT: THE STORY OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS HOWELL. Lond.: Richards, 1954, pp. 7, 58, 143-46, 157, 214, 248. Discusses F. as a "romantic biographer" who mixes fact and fiction and views life as a romance or a drama. F's best remembered writings are autobiographical. Antheil, George. BAD BOY OF MUSIC. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1945, pp. 90, 129; 7, 139, 146-47. Brief refs. to TRANSATLANTIC REVIEW, F's appearance. Atkins, John. "Too Much Intellectual Honesty: Ford Madox Ford: Snubbed by Snobs...