Some Sort of Genius

by Paul O'Keeffe

“A man of undoubted genius,” T.S. Eliot said of Wyndham Lewis, “…but genius for what precisely it would be remarkably difficult to say.” Painter and draughtsman, novelist, satirist, pamphleteer and critic, Lewis’s multifarious activities defied easy categorization.

Genres: Biography

704 pages, Paperback

First published July 25, 2000

Reviews

[Jess · Rating 4 out of 5]

Impeccably researched. WL was an utter bastard. But the question looms throughout of how different he and his work would've been in conditions other than a precipitous lifelong poverty.

[Paul Howlett · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great study of a life of one who was pretty ruthless and unscrupulous but who was nevertheless gifted and who livied through an amazing moment for the arts among interesting people .