ABSTRACT
Ford Madox Ford’s French connections have been explored in only two extended treatments of the subject: Ford Madox Ford, France and Provence and Ford Madox Ford’s Cosmopolis, both edited collections. Fordian scholars have investigated various aspects of Ford’s editorial activity in Paris. Yet to date Bernard Poli’s account of Ford and the transatlantic review is the most important resource for the researcher of Ford’s busy life in Paris, his friendships and entanglements, and the exhilarations and tensions of running a review and serving the Republic of Letters. In The March of Literature, Ford mentions Edgar Jepson Allan Poe as having had ‘the luck to find for translator a poet as great as himself, perhaps regretting that he had not encountered similar support. A fertile imagination and longing came into it too: Ford remembers that even in ‘darkest London’, he had the ‘trick of imagining things’ and ‘that those things would be more real than the things that surrounded.
