On Tuesday, November 16, 2004, at 11:40:21 AM, John R asked:
JR> Does anyone happen to know Stewart's source for the
JR> statement on page xxx of the introduction that Kipling
JR> ranked Henry James' writing higher than his own ?
Could it be based on the letter of 9 October 1909, to
Henry Seidel Canby, given on page 394 of Volume III of the
Letters?
Discussing short story writers, RK says that Henry James
"is heads and shoulders the biggest of them all and will
in the end be found to be the perhaps the most enduring
influence". In a note on this, Pinney suggests that "RK
may be, implicitly, correcting Canby's belief that
'Kipling is, on the whole, the most vigourous, versatile,
and highly endowed among contemporary writers of
fiction'."
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