Wyndham Lewis
Percy Wyndham Lewis (18 November 1882 – 7 March 1957) was an English painter and author (he dropped the name 'Percy', which he disliked). He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art, and edited the literary magazine of the Vorticists, BLAST. His novels include his pre-World War I-era novel Tarr (set in Paris), and The Human Age, a trilogy comprising The Childermass (1928), Monstre Gai and Malign Fiesta (both 1955), set in the afterworld. A fourth volume of The Human Age, The Trial of Man, was begun by Lewis but left in a fragmentary state at the time of his death. He also wrote two autobiographical volumes, Blasting and Bombardiering (1937) and Rude Assignment: A Narrative of my Career Up-to-Date (1950).
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... the afterworld, "outside Heaven" and dramatised in fantastic form the cultural critique Lewis had developed in his polemical works of the period ... been read as continuing the self-assessment begun by Lewis in "Self Condemned." But Pullman is not merely autobiographical the character is a composite intellectual, intended to have wider representative ... the Tate Gallery held a major exhibition of his work, "Wyndham Lewis and Vorticism," in the catalogue to which he declared that "Vorticism, in fact, was what I, personally, did and said at a certain period"—a ...
... In September 1926, he married Jane Wyndham-Lewis (ex-wife of the original 'Beachcomber' D ... Wyndham-Lewis, no relation to the artist Wyndham Lewis) they had two daughters and one son ...
... Wyndham Lewis (7 October 1780 – 14 March 1838) was a British politician and a close associate of Benjamin Disraeli ... Lewis was the son of Reverend Wyndham Lewis, of Tongwynlais, Glamorganshire ... Lewis married Mary Anne, daughter of John Evans, in 1816 ...
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