Henry James
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Wells set off in the nineties in a world encouragingly full of talk about good writing. Conrad, mouthing his difficult strange tales about the sea, found an audience that would sit hushed. And in the brain of one who, being then between forty and fifty years of age, might have been thought inaccessible to new conceptions of the art that had for so long preoccupied him, there passed important thoughts.
" That idea I picked up when I corrected George Eliot's proofs, oh ! so long ago ! " one can i...magine Mr James saying, " that idea that art must be ballasted by didactic- ism can't be true for me. I've fined it down, in my reading of the French, to an opinion that the artist should use his fancy 82 TRANSITION work to decorate useful articles ; but still it isn't true for me. For I must, before I can decorate them, make the useful articles of thought my own, and they are just the one thing that for all my mental wealth I can't acquire. I see them often enough in the shop-windows the moral and political and philosophical problems so prodigiously produced by my age and many times have tried the door, but to my touch it never opens, so I have to describe them as I see them through the glass, without having felt or known them with the intimacy of posses- sion !
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Wells set off in the nineties in a world encouragingly full of talk about good writing. Conrad, mouthing his difficult strange tales about the sea, found an audience that would sit hushed. And in the brain of one who, being then between forty and fifty years of age, might have been thought inaccessible to new conceptions of the art that had for so long preoccupied him, there passed important thoughts.
" That idea I picked up when I corrected George Eliot's proofs, oh ! so long ago ! " one can i...magine Mr James saying, " that idea that art must be ballasted by didactic- ism can't be true for me. I've fined it down, in my reading of the French, to an opinion that the artist should use his fancy 82 TRANSITION work to decorate useful articles ; but still it isn't true for me. For I must, before I can decorate them, make the useful articles of thought my own, and they are just the one thing that for all my mental wealth I can't acquire. I see them often enough in the shop-windows the moral and political and philosophical problems so prodigiously produced by my age and many times have tried the door, but to my touch it never opens, so I have to describe them as I see them through the glass, without having felt or known them with the intimacy of posses- sion !
What to read after Henry James?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by West Rebecca to read onlineMoreLess
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