| Evidence: | Referring to criticism of Henry James by John Galsworthy that James did not 'write from the heart':
'To me even "R.T." ["The Real Thing" 1892,1893] seems to flow from the heart because and only because the work approaching [sic] so near perfection yet does not strike cold.[...] The outlines are so clear the figures so finished, chiselled, carved and brought out[...]. The volume of short stories entitled I think "The Lesson of the Master" [1892] contains a tale called "The Pupil" if I remember rightly where the underlying feeling of the man --his really wide sympathy--is seen nearer the surface.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1892 and 12 Mar 1899 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Unknown probably England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Joseph Conrad |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 3 Dec 1857 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Master mariner and author |
| Religion: | originally Polish Catholic, by now agnostic/atheist |
| Country of origin: | Poland |
| Country of experience: | Unknown probably England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Henry James |
| Title: | The Pupil |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
| Publication details: | "The Pupil" was a short story/novella first published in Longman's Magazine 1891. The source text implies that Conrad read it in book form. |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 19223 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Joseph Conrad | |
| Editor: | Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) | |
| Title: | The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902 | |
| Place of Publication: | Cambridge | |
| Date of Publication: | 1986 | |
| Vol: | 2 | |
| Page: | 174 | |
| Additional comments: | Letter to John Galsworthy, considered by eds. to be dated 12th March 1899, Pent Farm |
| Citation: | Joseph Conrad, Frederick R. Karl (and Laurence Davies) (ed.), The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad Volume 2, 1898-1902 (Cambridge, 1986), 2, p. 174, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19223, accessed: 01 June 2023 | |
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