Books in the Regents Critics series

The Russian formalists emerged from the Russian Revolution with ideas about the independence of literature. They enjoyed that independence until Stalin shut them down. By then, however, they had produced essays that remain among the best defenses ever written for both literature and its theory. Included here are four essays representing key points in the formalists' short history.

Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) is a novelist, poet, literary critic, editor, a founding father of English Modernism, and one of the most significant novelists of the twentieth century. This collection contains essays and letters on the English novel, impressionism, vers libre, Joseph Conrad, H G Wells, Henry James, Herbert Read, and Ernest Hemingway.