Does the Broken Estate Have a Heart?

Robin Landseadel robinlandseadel at comcast.net
Thu Jul 23 17:48:56 CDT 2009


On Jul 23, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Campbel Morgan wrote:

> from Joseph Conrad's _Notes on Life and Letters_ (J. M. Dent  
> edition, 1921):
> HENRY JAMES--AN APPRECIATION--1905
>
> The critical faculty hesitates before the magnitude of Mr. Henry
> James's work. . .

So I take it that Joseph Conrad was Henry James' fanboy?

I mean seriously, that's some kind of a major-league example of  
overwritten hyperbole.

You're still comparing apples and elevators.



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