Sublime

Then that deep ancient chill of male jealousy of even his own progeny touched my heart.

quiescence,

For the glory of this world is a very small and priggish affair, and these men are too large to get in line with it.

If only he were more successful, she reflected. He was a Catholic and a gentleman, and her grandfather, at least, believed that his talents as a poet were considerable. His suit might one day be worth a good deal. But she shrank from the thought. Such an odd man, subject to headache and ill-humor; writing his poems and talking about Virgil, with no

Henry James’s notebooks,

Illuminating accounts of his work appear in both James

Briefly Carleton considered the other man, of whom he’d made such a study he might have been appointed professor of Thomas Studies at the University of Essex. He knew, for example, that Thomas was a confirmed bachelor, as they say, never seen in the company of a beautiful young person or a stately older one; that he had about him the melancholy

Peel dramatizes the boredom through the juxtaposition of images, and in so doing he forces the reader