Enemy

<p>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 publication of <i>Blast</i> 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 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. </p>