{"id":1927,"date":"2015-01-23T15:40:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T15:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warpoets.org.uk\/-2\/?page_id=1927"},"modified":"2018-07-27T15:30:06","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T14:30:06","slug":"ford-madox-ford","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/warpoets.org.uk\/worldwar1\/poets-and-poetry\/ford-madox-ford\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford Madox Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Born in Wimbledon in 1873 as Ford Madox Hueffer (he changed his name in 1919) Ford&nbsp;founded&nbsp;<em>The English Review<\/em> in 1908 and <em>The Transatlantic Review<\/em> in 1924. He&nbsp;worked for the War Propaganda Bureau after the outbreak of the First World War.<\/p>\n<p>After writing two propaganda books he enlisted, at the age of 41, in the Welch Regiment on 30 July 1915 and was sent to France. His combat experiences inspired his tetralogy <em>Parade&#8217;s End<\/em>, set in England and on the Western Front before, during and after the First World War.<\/p>\n<p>During the Battle of the Somme in 1916 Ford was shell-shocked and was invalided home in 1917.<\/p>\n<p>He also wrote poetry: his poem <em>Antwerp<\/em> (1915) was praised by T.S. Eliot as<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the only good poem I have met with on the subject of the war.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[Source:&nbsp;Modernism Lab at Yale University <a href=\"http:\/\/modernism.research.yale.edu\/wiki\/index.php\/Antwerp \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/modernism.research.yale.edu\/wiki\/index.php\/Antwerp&nbsp;<\/a>]<\/p>\n<h3>Ford Madox Ford&#8217;s poems:<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/warpoets.org.uk\/worldwar1\/blog\/poem\/solis-ortus-cardine\/\">A Solis Ortus Cardine<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/warpoets.org.uk\/worldwar1\/blog\/poem\/albade\/\">Albade<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/warpoets.org.uk\/worldwar1\/blog\/poem\/clair-de-lune\/\">Clair de Lune<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/warpoets.org.uk\/worldwar1\/blog\/poem\/antwerp-in-october-1914\/\">Antwerp [In October 1914]<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<h3>Resources<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/onheavenpoemswri00forduoft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">On Heaven and Other Poems Written on Active Service<\/a> at Internet Archive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in Wimbledon in 1873 as Ford Madox Hueffer (he changed his name in 1919) Ford&nbsp;founded&nbsp;The English Review in 1908 and The Transatlantic Review in 1924. He&nbsp;worked for the War Propaganda Bureau after the outbreak of the First World War. After writing two propaganda books he enlisted, at the age of 41, in the Welch<a href=\"https:\/\/warpoets.org.uk\/worldwar1\/blog\/poem\/antwerp-in-october-1914\/\" class=\"read-more\">&nbsp; Continue Reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1929,"parent":35,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"template-poet-bio.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/warpoets.org.uk\/worldwar1\/poets-and-poetry\/ford-madox-ford\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ford Madox Ford | World War I\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Born in Wimbledon in 1873 as Ford Madox Hueffer (he changed his name in 1919) Ford&nbsp;founded&nbsp;The English Review in 1908 and The Transatlantic Review in 1924. 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