"That truth should be silent I had almost forgot"--Enobarbus in ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, back in Rome after having been too long in Egypt.--------- Melville's PIERRE, Book 4, chapter 5: "Something ever comes of all persistent inquiry; we are not so continually curious for nothing."
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
The article I am next-most proud of--on Henry James
This textual article, I now see, is quintessentially biographical, as all my textual work in the 1970s and 1980s was. This accounts for the ferocious hostility from Fredson Bowers all through that period and from the Thorpe-Pizer-McGann textualists.
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