[lbo-talk] Prose Style, was Time to Get Religion

[Carl Remick]

>From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Prose Style, was Time to Get Religion
>Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 17:05:01 -0600
>
>Carl Remick wrote:
>
> > As wordy novelists go, Conrad is infinitely more enjoyable than Henry 
>James,
> > who had a tendency (as has been famously noted) to chew more than could 
>he
> > could bite off.
>
>Oh pish. What Maisie Knew, The Awkward Age, and The Sacred Fount are as
>wonderful as any novel ever written.

YMMV.  For me Henry James is trial by circumlocution.  (BTW, I see that I 
snarled up my punchline above, so let me untangle it for the record:  H. 
James had a tendency to chew more than he could bite off.)

Carl

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