Lewis, Wyndham

Dennis was only following Wyndham Lewis, who made Joyce s ascent to eminence in the afterworld the subject of his novel The Human Age. 

Cited in Paul O Keefe, Some Sort of Genius A Life of Wyndham Lewis (London, 2000), p. 156. 

Wyndham Lewis, Rude Assignment An Intellectual Autobiography (1950 Santa Barbara, ca, 1984), p. 135. 

When in the culture wars of the first half of the twentieth century Bloomsbury came under attack, as it commonly did, its enemy, whether (self-styled) Wyndham Lewis or F.R. Leavis in Scrutiny, or any number of others (including, famously, D. H. Lawrence), might at last be accused,... 

See Quentin Bell, Bloomsbury (London Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968), p. 13 Thus Bloomsbury is always fair game because it can stand for whatever prey the sportsman wishes to kill and easy game because he can fire into the brown . For Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), F. R. Leavis (1895-1978) and D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) and Bloomsbury, see the section on Criticisms and Controversies in The Bloomsbury Group, ed. S.P. Rosenbaum (London Groom Helm/University of Toronto Press, 1975), pp. 329-407. For Clive Bell s challenge, see Bloomsbury in Old Friends (London Chatto C Windus, 1956), pp. 126-37, reprinted in Rosenbaum, The Bloomsbury Group. 

Wyndham Lewis, Automobilism (1914), in Creatures of Habit and Creatures of Change, ed. Paul Edwards (Santa Rosa, CA Black Sparrow Press, 1989), pp. 33-4. 

Woolf conveniently overlooks the violent art of opponents like Wyndham Lewis. 

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