Word: prose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...selections will include "Song Cycle, Opus 57," by Brahms; "Song" and "Dirge in Woods," by Copland; "Two Poems of Coventry Patmore," by Milhaud, and "Prose Lyric," by Debussy...
...then, on the three short novels and five longer ones which are most congenial to his critical methods: "The Secret Sharer," "The Shadow Line," "Heart of Darkness," The Nigger of the Narcissus, Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes. The method involves three great concerns--for prose style, for narrative technique and for the psycho-mythical element. The combination is not as confining as it sounds; a closely argued and integrated discussion of the first five novels cited above on these three bases covers them with commendable through-ness. Indeed, the chapters on Nigger and Lord...
...Book of Practical Cats-my young godchildren call me Uncle Possum-than anything else I've ever written." What would he like to write next? Possibly more poetry, but "it will have to be in a new idiom-Four Quartets brought something to an end." Possibly "abstract prose." Possibly another play "which would be completely successful theatrically and give the highest possible quotient of poetry." Smilingly he added: "That's aiming at Shakespeare under different and more difficult conditions...
James is the Dean of the Anatomical School of Literature--the Neo-Sophistry which views poetry and prose as a connected skeleton. The curriculum is not particularly concerned with what the skeleton has to say, what it thinks about, or, indeed, if it's starving to death. It's bone-structure, marrow, and stomach-muscle, the physiology of literature...
...Ernest Hemingway remarked in Death in the Afternoon, "If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows . . . The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing." In Hemingway's "refreshing" Paris Review interview [Aug. 11], he remarked, "I always write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows. Anything...