...opposite point of view by affirming at the very outset of his book on Hawthorne that 'the moral is that the flower of art blooms only where the soil...produce a little literature, that it needs a complex machinery to set a writer in motion'. Implicitly, indeed almost explicitly, this suggested that America...

...texture which Henry James had observed in his life of Hawthorne. (There James had drawn the lesson that 'the flower of art blooms only where the soil...needs a complex social machinery to set a writer in motion'.) Trilling even argued that American novels 'have given us very few substantial or memorable...

...long ago. More truly, if you want history you can have it, in America or Afghanistan. James argued that "it takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature; . . ."7 But that is disputable. Not only are we arguing here that it takes only a little history to...

...with the dislocated American writer. Criticizing the shortcomings of American culture, James remarks that "it takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature" and that literature "needs a complex machinery to set a writer in motion."32 America was incapable...

...it actually is, and that can best come from reading it. It was a novelist, Henry James, who remarked that 'It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature'. It also takes a great deal of history to produce an historic landscape. The author acknowledges the...

...blank and immature, too ahistorical, to offer the novelist a fitting climate of representation, for "it takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature." The New World milieu may suit the Emersonian sage, whose "doctrine of the supremacy of the individual...

...verändert hatten. Natürlich habe James recht gehabt, daß die Kunst nur dort blühe, wo die Erde tief sei, »that it takes a great deal of history to produce...it needs a complex social machinery to set a writer into motion«, doch ist in Rahvs Wahrnehmung die Zeit vorbei, in der nur der Geschäftssinn respektiert...

...alone. When they dine alone they don't dine. 4994 Deep experience is never peaceful. 4995 Hawthorne egret, for my lips are not yet unsealed. Were these 4996 Hawthorne He was imperfect, unfinished, inartistic; he was worse than provincial - he was parochial....

...prevent you from making bloopers (like confusing romance and romanticism/ Special Thanks "The moral is that the flower of art blooms only where the soil...needs a complex social machinery to set a writer in motion. " — Henry James My thanks to all the wonderful people at Alpha Books who have helped my art...

...in Cambridge or Boston or New York. For "the flower of art blooms only where the soil is deep. ... It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. ... It needs a complex social machinery to set a writer in motion. American civilization has hitherto...