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" Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so. "
The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction with a New Epilogue - Page 176
by Frank Kermode - 2000 - 224 pages
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The Novels and Tales of Henry James: Roderick Hudson

Henry James, Percy Lubbock - American fiction - 1907 - 564 pages
...relation stop — giving way to some other not concerned in that expression ? Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so....
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The Novels and Tales of Henry James, Volume 1

Henry James, Percy Lubbock - Manners and customs - 1907 - 564 pages
...relation stop — giving way to some other not concerned in that expression ? Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so....
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The Bookman, Volume 30

Book collecting - 1910 - 740 pages
...of the happiest statements of the essential problem of the literary artist) : Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so....
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Roderick Hudson

Henry James - 1917 - 564 pages
...relation stop — giving way to some other not concerned in that expression ? Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by ^ a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so....
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Theory of Fiction: Henry James

Henry James, James Edwin Miller - Literary Criticism - 1972 - 394 pages
...touch, a la Daudet. 3. relations stop nowhere (Preface to Roderick Hudson, 1907) Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so....
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Tragedy in the Victorian Novel: Theory and Practice in the Novels of George ...

Jeannette King - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 200 pages
...particular relation stop giving way to some other not concerned in that expression? Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so....
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Conrad in the Nineteenth Century

Ian Watt - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 400 pages
...James summed up the matter in the famous words of the preface to Roderick Hudson: "Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so."81...
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Against the Meanwhile: 3 Elegies

Mark Irwin - Poetry - 1988 - 84 pages
...apprehending all sensation to which the patient flesh held and felt all things. Circling ... universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so ......
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Essays for Richard Ellmann: Omnium Gatherum

Richard Ellmann - Fiction - 1989 - 534 pages
...holism come on trial as he anxiously perceives that 'really, universally, relations end nowhere', that 'the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally ... to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so'. The 'circle' that his approach demands, which will...
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Writing the Apocalypse: Historical Vision in Contemporary U.S. and Latin ...

Lois Parkinson Zamora - Literary Collections - 1989 - 254 pages
...will, like the fiction of Cortazar, self-consciously embody the truth of Henry James's assertion in his preface to Roderick Hudson: "relations stop nowhere...and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so."38...
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