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Huneker is, in the best sense, a critic; he listens to the music and gives you his impressions as rapidly and in as few words as possible; or he sketches the composers in fine, broad, sweeping strokes with a magnificent disregard for unimportant details. And as Mr.
Such a human vegetable, we saw, was hardly credible. "Charge," he said, "to James Huneker." He pronounced his name in a very eccentric fashion, the first syllable like that in "hunter." In our commerce with the world we have, with this rather important exception, invariably heard this "u" as in "humid."
Dudevant, George Sand, who used man after man as living "copy," and when she had finished with him cast him aside for some new experience. But the story has been admirably told by Huneker and others and its disagreeable details need not be repeated here.
Huneker says of Liszt and the Comtesse d'Agoult: "Every one knows that he was as so much dough in her hands." So, in a more than different way, we shall find him who had slain his hecatomb of hearts helpless in the power of his one great love. Again he is first compelling, then compelled. February 8, 1819, in Monasterzyka in Kiev, Carolyne von Ivanovska was born.
Huneker has told of him that "he would annotate three hundred volumes for a page of facts.... In twenty pages he sometimes saved three or four from destruction," and, in the course of twenty-six years' polishing and pruning of The Temptation of Saint Anthony, he reduced his original manuscript of 540 pages down to 136, even reducing it still further after its first publication.
I'll bet Brander Matthews kept one, and James Huneker. It's a pity Professor Matthews's was a bit tedious. Crabb Robinson was the man for my money. McFee might be let off the job by reason of his ambrosial letters. But it just occurs to me that of course one must not know who is keeping the diary. If it were known, he would be deluged with letters from people wanting to get their names into it.
The twenty-four Preludes were composed before the trip to Majorca, though they were perfected and polished while there. Written early in his career, they have a youthful vigor not often found in later works. "Much in miniature are these Preludes of the Polish poet," says Huneker. There are four Impromptus and four Ballades, also four Scherzos.
Huneker in his diabolical story “The Supreme Sin” , “is the greatest of all musicians,” and Rowland Hill long ago admitted the fact that the devil has all the good tunes. Perhaps his greatest composition is the Sonata del Diavolo, which Tartini wrote down in 1713.
Huneker must be reckoned the most brilliant of all living writers on matters musical." Academy, London. "No modern musical critic has shown greater ingenuity in the attempt to correlate the literary and musical tendencies of the nineteenth century." Spectator, London. Stendhal, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Anatole France, Huysmans, Barrès, Hello, Blake, Nietzsche, Ibsen and Max Stirner.
I do not even remember to have seen him mentioned in the works of James Huneker and you will not find his name in Barrett Wendell's "A History of American Literature" , "A Reader's History of American Literature" by Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Henry Walcott Boynton , Katherine Lee Bates's "American Literature" , "A Manual of American Literature," edited by Theodore Stanton , William B. Cairns's "A History of American Literature" , William Edward Simonds's "A Student's History of American Literature" , Fred Lewis Pattee's "A History of American Literature Since 1870" , John Macy's "The Spirit of American Literature" , or William Lyon Phelps's "The Advance of the English Novel" . The third volume of "The Cambridge History of American Literature," bringing the subject up to 1900, has not yet appeared but I should be amazed to discover that the editors had decided to include Saltus therein.
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