The Enemy: A Biography of Wyndham Lewis

The first biography of Wyndham Lewis, based on extensive archival research and interviews, covers his life from his years at Rugby and the Slade to his bohemian life on the Continent, the creation of Vorticism, Blast's publication, and his experiences at Passchendaele. It also describes his relationships with other artists and writers.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 426 pages
Publication date: 31 October 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Originally published in 1980 and nominated for the Duff Cooper Prize, this was the first biography of Wyndham Lewis and was based on extensive archival research and interviews. It narrates Lewis' years at Rugby and the Slade, his bohemian life on the Continent, the creation of Vorticism and the publication of Blast, and his experiences at Passchendaele, as well as his many love affairs, his bitter quarrels with Bloomsbury and the Sitwells, the suppressed books of the thirties, the evolution of his political ideas, his self-imposed exile in North America, and his creative resurgence during his final blindness. Jeffrey Meyers also describes Lewis' relationships with Roy Campbell, D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, T. E. Lawrence, Hemingway, Huxley, Yeats, Auden, Spender, Orwell, and McLuhan. As the self-styled Enemy emerges from the shadows, he is seen as an independent and courageous artist and one of the most controversial and stimulating figures in modern English art and literature.

Originally published in 1980 and nominated for the Duff Cooper Prize, this was the first biography of Wyndham Lewis and was based on extensive archival research and interviews. It narrates Lewis' years at Rugby and the Slade, his bohemian life on the Continent, the creation of Vorticism and the publication of Blast, and his experiences at Passchendaele, as well as his many love affairs, his bitter quarrels with Bloomsbury and the Sitwells, the suppressed books of the thirties, the evolution of his political ideas, his self-imposed exile in North America, and his creative resurgence during his final blindness. Jeffrey Meyers also describes Lewis' relationships with Roy Campbell, D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, T. E. Lawrence, Hemingway, Huxley, Yeats, Auden, Spender, Orwell, and McLuhan. As the self-styled Enemy emerges from the shadows, he is seen as an independent and courageous artist and one of the most controversial and stimulating figures in modern English art and literature.

Weight: 790g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032118703