Henry James and the Lust of the Eyes: Thirteen Artists in His Work.

Studies in the Novel | December 22, 1994| | Copyright

In that select company of writers for whom the visible world thrillingly exists--Goethe, Ruskin, Pater, Peter Ackroyd, Bruce Chatwin--Henry James has an eminent place. Goethe's admission in Dichtung und Warheit might have been made by his American counterpart: "The eye was, above all others, the organ by which I seized the world. I had, from childhood, lived among painters, and had accustomed myself to look at objects, as they did, with reference to art... Wherever I looked, I saw a picture." All of James's writings--his fiction, his essays, his travel sketches--reveal the ...

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