Enemy salvoes: Selected literary criticism

by Wyndham Lewis, C.H. Sisson (Introduction), Cyril James Fox (Editor)

Excellent compilation of Lewis's literary criticism, in VG+, clean and bright order throughout. Former owner's name neatly to fep. Smart pink boards showing minimal wear, with bright gilt tilting to spine. VG unclipped d/j, a little toned and faded to spine. 8vo. 272pp

272 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1975

Reviews

[Jon]

Though there's been something of a resurgence of interest in Wyndham Lewis recently, he remains underappreciated. (And confused with other writers, as when someone asked me "He wrote DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS, right?") This collection of his sometimes scathing, always insightful literary criticism would be a great place to start for anyone interested in reading his work.

[Will · Rating 4 out of 5]

"If a painter were able to make, and did, pillar-boxes and lamp-posts think, and feel, and subsequently or at the same time cause their thinking and feeling to issue in speech like the music of the spheres, he would then be doing what Shakespeare did. The action was being the pillar-box or the lamp-post: the thinking, the feeling and speech was Shakespeare's always, when the great interior action started, and the thing became transformed into a person. As action, in the sense used above, is a function merely, it is when these figures turned from their function at last and became alone, that they became a person. But without the personality of Shakespeare they would, from the moment of their functional demise, have ceased to exist."