...his fame ; for he has the advantage of pointing a valuable moral. This moral is that the flower of art blooms only where the soil is deep, that it takes...with providing something for them to write about. Three or four beautiful talents of trans -Atlantic growth are the sum of what the world usually recognises,...

...advantage of pointing a valuable moral. This moral is that the flower^ of art blooms only where the_soil is deep, that it takes a great deal of history to produce ajittle Jiteraturgj. that it needs a~complex social machinery to set a writer in motion. American civilization...

...his fame ; for he has the advantage of pointing a valuable moral. This moral is that the flower of art blooms only where the soil is deep, that it takes...with providing something for them to write about. Three or four beautiful plants of trans-Atlantic growth are the sum of what the world usually recognises,...

...LITTLE ENGLISH GALLERY " THE flower of art," says Henry James, " blooms only where the soil is deep." " It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature " and " it needs a complex social machinery to set a writer in motion." l Such also was the feeling,...

...unstimulating environment. Henry James' book on Hawthorne is a well known illustration of this point of view. "It needs a complex social machinery to set a writer in motion," said Henry James. "The outlook for an embryonic novelist would not seem to have been cheerful, the...

...Cowboy-Cum-Sourdough novelists. It may, or it may not be true, as Henry James asserted, that the flower of art blooms only where the soil is deep, that it takes...little literature, that it needs a complex social machine to set a writer in motion. But that Canada has produced only one great novel, the Maria Chapdelaine...

...talent and made it bear fruit. "The flower of art," wrote he, "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." He pleaded extenuating circumstances...

...church, with "its safe, lovingly arranged and ordered universe, not too vast, though nobly spacious." "It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature," Henry James had written, and the sense of history was strong in Willa Cather, stronger by far than...

...'contrasting his proportions with those of a great civilisation': This moral is that the flower of art blooms only where the soil is deep, that it takes...complex social machinery to set a writer in motion. This is of course only half of the 'moral' (the half which is so often attended to in isolation) and,...

...of his fame; for he has the advantage of pointing a valuable moral. This moral is that the flower of art blooms only where the soil is deep, that it takes...with providing something for them to write about. Three or four beautiful talents of trans- Atlantic growth are the sum of what the world usually recognises,...