...may be times of genius, are not times of development, are times, possibly even, a little of duluess. The successful application of any art is a delightful...Discussion, suggestion, formulation, these things are fertilizing when they are frank and sincere. Mr. Besant has set an excellent example in saying what...

...another French word); and evidently if it be destined to suffer in any way for having lost its naivete it has now an idea of making sure of the corresponding...Discussion, suggestion, formulation, these things are fertilizing when they are frank and sincere. Mr. Besant has set an excellent example in saying what...

...novel is a novel, as a pudding is a pudding, and that our only business with it could be to swaflow it. But within a year or two, for some reason or other,...Discussion, suggestion, formulation, these things are fertilizing when they are frank and sincere. Mr. Besant has set an excellent example in saying what...

...be times of honor, are not times of development — are times, possibly even, a little of dullness. The successful application of any art is a delightful...Discussion, suggestion, formulation, these things are fertilizing when they are frank and sincere. Mr. Besant has set an excellent example in saying what...

...about it, and has no reason to give for practice or preference, though they may be times of genius, are not times of development, are times, possibly...Discussion, suggestion, formulation, these things are fertilizing when they are frank and sincere. Mr. Besant has set an excellent example in saying what...

...be times of honor, are not times of development — are times, possibly even, a little of dullness. The successful application of any art is a delightful...Discussion, suggestion, formulation, these things are fertilizing when they are frank and sincere. It is, I think, because we are no longer certain that...

...the most social of literary forms. Henry James, Percy Lubbock, and the Formalist Vision of the Novel The successful application of any art is a delightful spectacle, but the theory too is interesting. —Henry James, "The Art of Fiction" (1888) IN ENGL AN D at the end of the twenties, the poetics of...

...delighrful specracle, but the theory, too, is inreresting; and though there is a great deal of the latrer without the former, I suspect there has never been a genuine success that has not had a larent core of conviction. Discussion, suggestion, formulation, these things ate fertilizing when they...

...our readerly pleasures, James maintains, precisely by stepping back to contemplate them critically. 'The successful application of any art is a delightful spectacle, but the theory too is interesting' (p. 45) - especially at moments of creative ferment such as the 18805, when theory and application...