Catherine Eisner
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Henry James
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Showing posts with label
Henry James
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Sunday, 19 March 2017
‘Did someone call for a recitation?’ Finishing School for Versifiers (Part 5)
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All poets, whatever they may seem to others, die young. Tennessee Williams Suddenly Last Summer . You might say of certain literar...
Monday, 24 March 2014
Secret-Sharers . . . Henry James and Joseph Conrad’s Junoesque Women
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Since my last post, it has been pointed out to me by a Jamesian scholar that Henry James shared Joseph Conrad’s tendency to fixate on exceed...
Thursday, 20 September 2012
Great Dictators: Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Barbara Cartland, Edgar Wallace and Co.
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I have often thought that there must exist any number of recordings gathering dust made by those ‘great dictators’, the famous novelists o...
Friday, 8 June 2012
Fruits secs and the Napoleon of Over-Stippled Prose
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A recent fossicking in a rummage sale at a Cambridge country house brought to light a rare volume by that scourge of poetastry, eminent fra...
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