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Henry James at the Grecian Urn

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

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The myth of the cultural “limitations” of Henry James appears to have been the creation of two British journalists, Ford Madox Hueffer and Rebecca West, who, while they rendered to James the service of publicity, were not sufficiently read in either James or the classics to generalize as freely as they did on both his riches and his deficiencies. Hueffer led off in 1913 in this fashion:

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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1951

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