Fine Chances
Michael Wood, 5 June 1986
Literary Criticism
by Henry James, edited by Leon Edel.
Cambridge, 1500 pp., £30, July 1985,0 521 30100 9 Show More
by Henry James, edited by Leon Edel.
Cambridge, 1500 pp., £30, July 1985,
Henry James: The Writer and his Work
by Tony Tanner.
Massachusetts, 142 pp., £16.95, November 1985,0 87023 492 7 Show More
by Tony Tanner.
Massachusetts, 142 pp., £16.95, November 1985,
“... volumes form a part. How does he look, posing for posterity alongside Poe, Jefferson, Melville, Mark Twain, Jack London, Harriet Beecher Stowe and others? Is he smiling at some of the company he is keeping; frowning momentarily at the presence of Whitman, who at first he thought was not a poet but a man merely ‘bullied by the accidents’ of ... ”