Literature · Reflection
HENRY JAMES ~ ON PASSION OR MADNESS OF ART
16 February 2011
Portrait of Henry James
“We work in the dark, We do what we can, We give what we have, Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task, The rest is the madness of art.?”
Henry James
Henry James (1843-1916) , noted American-born English essayist, critic, and author of the realism movement wrote The Ambassadors (1903), The Turn of the Screw (1898), and The Portrait of a Lady (1881).
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