Some sort of genius a life of Wyndham Lewis O'Keeffe, Paul. creator text bibliography biography Biographies. enk London Jonathan Cape 2000 monographic eng print 697 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm. "He launched the only twentieth-century English avante garde movement, Vorticism, in 1914. His first novel, Tarr, was published in 1918. During the intervening World War, as an artillery officer at the third battle of Ypres, he gained his 'political education under fire'. Anti-war books of the 1930s argued against what he regarded as a war-mongering left-wing orthodoxy, and presented the case for the right. This placed him in the position somewhere between an advocate of appeasement and what looked uncomfortably like a Nazi sympathizer. Despite an admission, in 1939, that he had been wrong about Hitler, his reputation has never recovered from the stigma of Fascism." "This is the biography of a major but neglected figure of twentieth-century modernism. Paul O'Keeffe brings to his narrative a meticulous attention to the smallest, seemingly trivial, documentary details. Itemisation of lost laundry, shopping lists, strayed letters, the to-and-fro of official correspondence, and the chilling medical records of the last years, all provide an intimate and ironic counterpoint to the main events of Lewis's life."--Jacket. Paul O'Keeffe. Includes index. The Cushing Library Lit/Mitchell copy is a donation from J. Lawrence Mitchell. Accession #: 2020_0001 Includes bibliographical references: p. 677-682. e-uk-en Lewis, Wyndham 1882-1957 Biography Authors, English 20th century Biography Lewis, Wyndham 1882-1957 Biography Lewis, Wyndham 1882-1957 Biographies Écrivains anglais 20e siècle Biographies Lewis, Wyndham 1882-1957 Authors, English Lewis, Wyndham 1882-1957 Lewis, Wyndham 1900-1999 fast PR6023.E97 Z776 2000 PR6023.E97 Z778 2000 828/.91209 75(42)-19-LEW cci1icc coll1 18.05 21.02 HM 3355 0224031023 9780224031028 NLC 001120 20221103185354.7 in00004599015 eng