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Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)
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Ford Madox (Hermann Ford) Ford (Hueffer) : Shifting of the Fire
'I have read "Shifting of the Fire". I have read it several times looking for your "inside" in that book; the first impression being that there is a considerable "inside" in you.The book is delightfully young.' [thereafter 30 lines of critical comment for what was Ford Madox Ford's first novel, written in his teens and later adapted by Edward Garnett.]
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) : The Cinque Ports
'Many thanks for the "Cinque Ports" which came today as a most agreeable surprise. In the matter of outward characteristics the book has substance, appearance an air of sober finish which to me is very pleasing. [...] Hueffer's talent has been from the first sympathetic to me. throughout his feeling is true and his expression genuine with ease and moderation.' Hence follow nine lines of restrained praise.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) : The Making of Modern Verse
'Your paper in the "Academy" mutilated as it is by the mystic mind illustrates my meaning.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Serial / periodical
Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) : Rossetti
'Thanks for the "Rossetti". My opinion of it you know but I am reading it carefully. It is good.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) : The Fifth Queen and how she came to court
'The blessed vol: ["The Fifth Queen"] arrived about 4 days ago - or is it a week? I've read it twice - thats all.[...] Here I'll add one more phrase bearing upon the most "sensible" general effect.[...] The pictorial impression of the whole is positively overwhelming.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) : The Heart of the Country:A Survey of Modern Land
'[Ford's ] "The Heart of the Country" is out today and a very charming piece of writing it is.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) : [article on Galsworthy]
'I've read Hueffer's portrait of Mr John Galsworthy several times. It is interesting mostly as a portrait of Mr Hueffer himself. I have my own strong conception of J.G. I can't say I've been greatly edified. Looked upon abstractedly the thing is distinctly good.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Serial / periodical
Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) : An English Girl
'In many respects and from an absolute point of judgement - the book ["An English Girl"] is simply magnificent.' Hence follows a page of almost unqualified praise.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) : The Heart of the Country: A Survey of Modern Land
'And of all the men who write today it is only Hueffer who writes for love[...]. I took up the "H[eart]of [the]C[ountry]" which was lying there and opening it at hazard I showed sentences here and there asking whether they could have been written from any other conceivable motive.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) : The Fifth Queen Crowned
'Thanks for the book. You know what I think of it in so far as I have been able to express it. I did not do it very well. There is a singular fascination about this last volume of the trilogy. I've been dropping into it ever since it came and I am as far as ever from discovering a particularly precise formula of my admiration.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Manuscript: Unknown
Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) : Mr. Apollo
' I have just finished the book ["Mr. Apollo"] which reached me this morning [...].It comes off magnificently.' Hence follow 14 lines of almost unqualified praise.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: BookManuscript: proofs
Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) : Henry James:A Critical Study
'If we had telephonic communication I would call you up and hear me thump my chest and cry mea culpa for not having written to him [Ford Madox Ford] about the [Henry] James book for which the precise word is: delightful.' Hence follow 6 lines of praise for Ford's new book.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) : EITHER Between St Dennis and St George: A Sketch of Three Civilisations OR When Blood is their Argument: An Analysis of Prussian Culture
'Many thanks for the book which is excellent and super excellent; even to the point of making me uneasy lest its true and vibrating notes be lost in the beating of the pans and (more or less) savage yowling of the market place.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) : The Good Soldier
'I was writing something so I refrained from looking at "The Good Soldier" (according to my time-honoured practice) till I got a few pages out of the way.' Hence follow six lines of praise for the novel.
