SOURCE: "Ford Madox Ford and the Tietjens Fulfillment," in The Lock Haven Review, No. 1, 1959, pp. 58-65.

Issacs in an American author and educator. In the following essay, he contrasts Parade's End with The Good Soldier, evaluating the two works based on Ford's own criteria as a literary critic.

In the dedicatory letter to an American edition of The Good Soldier (1915), Ford Madox Ford says that he put into that novel everything he knew of the technical art of writing. He also says that he expects to be considered homo unius libri and that The Good Soldier is the one book. Elsewhere he claims that The Last Post (1928) was no more than an afterthought to the first three Tietjens books, Some Do Not (1924), No More Parades (1925), and A Man Could Stand Up (1926). These statements are mentioned first in order to get them out of the way. They are all...