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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 54 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Short studies of American authors 33 3 Browse Search
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899 30 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 22 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 20 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 19 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book 14 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) 10 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge 8 4 Browse Search
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches 7 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Short studies of American authors, Howells. (search)
racter of one's habitual host. Compare the position, in this respect, of Mr. Howells and Mr. Henry James, Jr. Their writings are equally conspicuous before the community; their merits are equally malmost monotonous praise, as if it had no individuality, no salient points; while each story by Mr. James is debated through and through the newspapers, as if it were a fresh Waverley novel. I see no and purposes, something to protest against, and something to say. He is often classed with Mr. James as representing the international school of novelists, yet in reality they belong to widely different subdivisions. After all, Mr. James has permanently set up his easel in Europe, Mr. Howells in America; and the latter has been, from the beginning, far less anxious to compare Americans withd village, he cannot forego the satisfaction of having given her California for a birthplace. Mr. James writes international episodes : Mr. Howells writes inter-oceanic episodes: his best scenes im
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Short studies of American authors, Henry James, Jr. (search)
Henry James, Jr. We are growing more cosmopolitan and varied, in these United States of Americfrom the other, but not less valuable. Mr. Henry James, Jr., belongs to neither of the classes thusison and the skipper of the Aroostook. Then Mr. James's life has been so far transatlantic, that oien que le travail. Even the later books of Mr. James, especially his travels and his essays, showtually predicted in the early chapters; even Mr. James has to admit that it could not have been oth is the most puzzling misconception of all,--Mr. James utterly fails to see the bearing of one of taste in literary workmanship which is one of Mr. James's besetting sins. It may be one result of this extreme rapidity of production, that Mr. James uses certain catch-words so often as to furnisy one to the manor born. The truth is, that Mr. James's cosmopolitanism is, after all, limited: toilessly portrayed. It cannot be said that Mr. James has yet succeeded in producing a satisfactor[3 more...]