The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work

Introduction 

Part One PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS, SOCIETY 

from BLAST 2 
A Super-Krupp —or War’s End 
Letters to Ezra Pound 
The Code of a Herdsman 

from BLASTING AND BOMBARDIERING 
First Meeting with James Joyce 
An ‘Age Group’ Meets Itself 
Our Lady of the Sleeping Cars 

from THE ART OF BEING RULED 
‘Bolshevism and the West’ 
Violence and ‘Kindliness’: Mr Bernard Shaw and Mr Bertrand Russell 
Vegetarianism and Capital Punishment 
The Contemporary Man ‘Expresses His Personality’ 
The Matrnarchate and Feminine Ascendency 
The Piecemealing of the Personality 
The Physiological Norm and the ‘Vicious’ 
The Intolerant Tradition of the Anglo-Saxon 
The Taboo on Generic Terms, and the Abstract 
Creature of Democracy 
‘Call Yourself a Man!’ 
The Great Development of Associational Life 
How Much Truth Does a Man Require? 
Different Magics 
The Politics of the Intellect 

from THE LION AND THE FOX 
Machiavelli in Elizabethan Drama 
Othello as the Typical Colossus 
Race and the Person 

from PALEFACE 
A Final Proposal: 
A Model ‘Melting-Pot’ 

from THE JEWS: ARE THEY HUMAN? 
A New Deal for the Jew 

from THE HITLER CULT 
Sovereign-Nationhood 

from AMERICA AND COSMIC MAN 
The Case Against Roots 
Cosmic Society and Cosmic Man 

Part Two ART AND LITERATURE 

from THE CALIPH'S DESIGN 
The Bull Sounds 
The Politician’s Apathy 
How the Fact ot Style Obstructs 
Where the Painter Would Benefit 
The Public Chosen 
Archttecture 
Child Art and the Naif 
Machinery and Lions 
The Artist’s Luck 
After Abstract Art 

from THE DEMON OF PROGRESS IN THE ARTS 
The Cause of the Heterogeneity in the Fine Arts 
in Our Time 
Amateur Artists 
Those who are Accessible to an Extremist Glamour 
There 1s a Limit, beyond which there is Nothing 
The Ability to See the Limit 
“The Unknown Political Prisoner’ and After 
The ‘Progressive’ Slave 

from TIME AND WESTERN MAN 
An Analysis ot the Mind of James Joyce 

from MEN WITHOUT ART 
Emest Hemingway: The ‘Dumb Ox’ 
The Greatest Satire 1s 
Non-Moral 
Conclusion 

from THE WRITER AND THE ABSOLUTE 
Twentieth Century Nihilism 

Part Three IMAGINATIVE WRITING 

from THE WILD BODY 
Bestre 

from TARR 
Part I, Chapter 2 
Part VII, Chapter 2 

from CHILDERMASS 

from THE APES OF GOD 
The Split-Man 

from SNOOTY BARONET 
The Hatter’s Automaton 

from THE REVENGE FOR LOVE 
from Chapter 2, Part VI 
from Chapter 8, Part VII 

The Sea-Mists of the Winter 

from SELF CONDEMNED 
Twenty-five Feet by Twelve 

from THE HUMAN AGE 
Infernal Preliminary 

List of Works 

Further Reading