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Henry James

Henry James (1843-1916) was a writer of nineteenth-century literary realism. Among his best known works of fiction are The Portrait of a Lady, Washington Square, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors, The Aspern Papers, and The Turn of the Screw.

Landscape by Emmanuel Lansyer, Godard Mill at Cernay, France, 1865

'The Touch of Autumn'

October: It might be an ado about trifles—and half the poetry, roundabout, the poetry in solution in the air, was doubtless but the alertness of the touch of Autumn, the imprisoned painter, the Bohemian with a rusty jacket, who had already broken out with palette and brush.

October 23, 2016

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