Excerpt from Egoist: A Book of Supermen The fanciful notion that psychical delicacy is accompanied by a corresponding physical exterior should have received a death-blow in the presence of Henry Beyle, better known as Stendhal. Chopin, Shelley, Byron and Cardinal Newman did not in personal appearance contradict their verse, prose and music; but Stendhal, possessing an exquisite sensibility, was, as Hector Berlioz cruelly wrote in his Memoirs: "A little pot-bellied man with a spiteful smile, who tried to look grave." Sainte-Beuve is more explicit. "Physically his figure, though not short,...
Excerpt from Egoist: A Book of Supermen The fanciful notion that psychical delicacy is accompanied by a corresponding physical exterior should hav...
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IVORY, APES AND PEACOCKS is a collection of essays by James Huneker and covers the following topics: Joseph Conrad Walt Whitman Jules Laforgue Dostoievsky and Tolstoy Schoenberg Wedekind Moussorgsky Cezanne Vermeer Matisse Van Gogh Gauguin Italian Futurists, Various Latter-Day Poets, Painters, Composers and Dramatists
IVORY, APES AND PEACOCKS is a collection of essays by James Huneker and covers the following topics: Joseph Conrad Walt Whitman Jules La...
