Wyndham Lewis

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Standard Name: Lewis, Wyndham
WL was an early twentieth-century artist and writer: novelist, poet, playwright, periodical editor, commentator on literature and society, and above all a satirist and lampooner of many of his contemporaries. He was the leading spirit in the art movement known as Vorticism. His political writings included some ill-advised praise of Hitler during the early 1930s. He also published an autobiography.

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Textual Production Naomi Mitchison
Wyndham Lewis and NM published Beyond this Limit, a collaborative venture—his pictures, her narrative.
Benton, Jill. Naomi Mitchison: A Biography. Pandora, 1992.
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Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz, 1979.
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TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
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Textual Production Naomi Mitchison
While writing it she sat for her portrait to Wyndham Lewis , who teased her by painting a crucifix in the background.
Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz, 1979.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Butts
In this essay Butts has some praise for Old Bloomsbury, particularly Lytton Strachey ,
Butts, Mary. “Bloomsbury”. Modernism/Modernity, edited by Camilla Bagg et al., Vol.
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, No. 2, Apr. 1998, pp. 32-45.
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but criticises it for relativism, artificiality, and lack of engagement with the real world. She credits Wyndham Lewis for...

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