THE LETTERS OF WYNDHAM LEWIS edited by W. K. Rose. 580 pages. New Directions. $8.50.
Some called him a revolutionary, others called him a reactionary, and T. S. Eliot called him the "most fascinating personality of our time." The time was the 1920s and '30s, and the man was Wyndham Lewis. Since then, Lewis has died, and the many battles he fought and which seemed so important at the time have passed into memory. Now Lewis' collected letters recall those battles—the clang and clatter of cubism, futurism, imagism, vorticism; the boisterous challenge to the...
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