The Daily Henry James by James Henry

Author:James, Henry
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016-10-12T00:00:00+00:00

June 29

The Awkward Age, 1899

A person who knew him well would, if present at the scene, have found occasion in it to be freshly aware that he was, in his quiet way, master of two distinct kinds of urbanity, the kind that added to distance and the kind that diminished it.

June 30

The Madonna of the Future, 1873

“He lived and moved altogether in. his own little province of art. A creature more unsullied by the world it is impossible to conceive, and I often thought it a flaw in his artistic character that he had not a harmless vice or two. It amused me greatly at times to think that he was of our shrewd Yankee race; but, after all, there could be no better token of his American origin than this high aesthetic fever. The very heat of his devotion was a sign of conversion; those born to European opportunity manage better to reconcile enthusiasm with comfort.”

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