“James's critical genius comes out most tellingly in his mastery over, his baffling escape from, Ideas; a mastery and an escape which are perhaps the last test of a superior intelligence. He had a mind so fine that no idea… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The greatest of all French critics, and possibly the greatest European critic since Aristotle . — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
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