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Percy Wyndham Lewis byl anglický spisovatel, malíř a kritik. Jméno Percy nepoužíval, nelíbilo se mu. Byl spoluzakladatelem vorticistického hnutí v umění a editoval literární magazín vorticistů BLAST. Jeho romány Tarr a The Human Age popisují čas před první světovou válkou. Trilogie The Childermass , Monstre Gai a Malign Fiesta pak dobu po skončení této války. Pokračování třetího dílu trilogie The Human Age nazvaný The Trial of Man začal Lewis psát, bohužel zemřel dříve než dílo dokončil. Napsal také dva autobiografické svazky, Blasting and Bombardiering a Rude Assignment: A Narrative of my Career Up-to-Date . Wikipedia  

✵ 18. listopad 1882 – 7. březen 1957
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“Certainly Mr Eliot in the twenties was responsible for a great vogue for verse-satire.”

Notes to Kenneth Allott, as quoted in Contemporary Verse (1948) edited by Kenneth Allott<!-- Penguin, London -->
Kontext: Certainly Mr Eliot in the twenties was responsible for a great vogue for verse-satire. An ideal formula of ironic, gently "satiric", self-expression was provided by that master for the undergraduate underworld, tired and thirsty for poetic fame in a small way. The results of Mr Eliot are not Mr Eliot himself: but satire with him has been the painted smile of the clown. Habits of expression ensuing from mannerism are, as a fact, remote from the central function of satire. In its essence the purpose of satire — whether verse or prose — is aggression. (When whimsical, sentimental, or "poetic" it is a sort of bastard humour.) Satire has a great big glaring target. If successful, it blasts a great big hole in the center. Directness there must be and singleness of aim: it is all aim, all trajectory.

“Satire has a great big glaring target. If successful, it blasts a great big hole in the center. Directness there must be and singleness of aim: it is all aim, all trajectory.”

Notes to Kenneth Allott, as quoted in Contemporary Verse (1948) edited by Kenneth Allott<!-- Penguin, London -->
Kontext: Certainly Mr Eliot in the twenties was responsible for a great vogue for verse-satire. An ideal formula of ironic, gently "satiric", self-expression was provided by that master for the undergraduate underworld, tired and thirsty for poetic fame in a small way. The results of Mr Eliot are not Mr Eliot himself: but satire with him has been the painted smile of the clown. Habits of expression ensuing from mannerism are, as a fact, remote from the central function of satire. In its essence the purpose of satire — whether verse or prose — is aggression. (When whimsical, sentimental, or "poetic" it is a sort of bastard humour.) Satire has a great big glaring target. If successful, it blasts a great big hole in the center. Directness there must be and singleness of aim: it is all aim, all trajectory.

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