obvious social problems in the 1920s he is a man of middle age writing stories about middle-aged characters for a middle-aged readership in a literary and intellectual climate obsessed and characterized by youth he is a “wildly inconsistent writer, who in his weakest work unquestionably justifies Schorer's description of him as “one of the worst writers in modern American Literature.” And probably more than any other twentieth-century writer of comparable stature, Lewis has been a victim of literary history-writing. Like Wells and Bennett in England he is a provincial writer of materialist romances, apparently left behind by Modernism like Upton Sinclair he is a clumsy and over-productive fictionaliser of. His fictions are direct, accessible, and for the most part actively simple. Lewis has proved to be an extremely easy writer to dismiss from any literary or intellectual canon, and not without good reason.
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