Editing Wyndham Lewis (section)

===Later life and blindness (1945–1951)===
By 1951, he was completely blinded by a [[Pituitary adenoma|pituitary tumor]] that placed pressure on his optic nerve. It ended his artistic career, but he continued writing until his death. He published several autobiographical and critical works: ''Rude Assignment'' (1950), ''Rotting Hill'' (1951), a collection of allegorical short stories about his life in "the capital of a dying empire";<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gingkopress.com/09-lit/rotting-hill.html |title=Wyndham Lewis "Rotting Hill" |access-date=13 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612000822/http://www.gingkopress.com/09-lit/rotting-hill.html |archive-date=12 June 2011 |url-status=dead  }}</ref><ref>{{citation|url=http://www.historytalk.org/Notting%20Hill%20History%20Timeline/timelinechap5.pdf|publisher=Kensington & Chelsea Community History Group|title=Notting Hill history: 5 – Rotting Hill, 1940s|access-date=10 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120131182401/http://www.historytalk.org/Notting%20Hill%20History%20Timeline/timelinechap5.pdf|archive-date=31 January 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> ''The Writer and the Absolute'' (1952), a book of essays on writers including [[George Orwell]], [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] and [[André Malraux]]; and the semi-autobiographical novel ''Self Condemned'' (1954).

The [[BBC]] commissioned Lewis to complete his 1928 work ''The Childermass'', which was published as ''The Human Age'' and dramatized for the [[BBC Third Programme]] in 1955.<ref>''The Human Age''. Wyndham Lewis. ''The Listener'' (London, England), Thursday, 2 June 1955; p. 976; Issue 1370.</ref> In 1956, the [[Tate Gallery]] held a major exhibition of his work, "Wyndham Lewis and Vorticism", in the catalogue to which he declared that "Vorticism, in fact, was what I, personally, did and said at a certain period"—a statement which brought forth a series of "Vortex Pamphlets" from his fellow ''Blast'' signatory [[William Roberts (painter)|William Roberts]].