DOI article:
Milman, Lena: A few notes upon Mr. James
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.27806#0087
By Lena Milman 83
our wits. When the dreamer is a poet, the other fellow is an
artist.”
English restricts the title of poet to writers of verse, but what
is poetrv but a fusion of life with dream, of dream with life ?
And is not he who can supply the requisite heat a poet, be
his emotion expressed in stone or chord, colour or spoken
words ?
“The thing is to have made somebody care,” says Duncombe,
in “The Middle Years.” There are many on either side of the
Atlantic to tell Mr. James that he has succeeded at least in
this.
our wits. When the dreamer is a poet, the other fellow is an
artist.”
English restricts the title of poet to writers of verse, but what
is poetrv but a fusion of life with dream, of dream with life ?
And is not he who can supply the requisite heat a poet, be
his emotion expressed in stone or chord, colour or spoken
words ?
“The thing is to have made somebody care,” says Duncombe,
in “The Middle Years.” There are many on either side of the
Atlantic to tell Mr. James that he has succeeded at least in
this.