I enjoy knowing the lives of influential writers from times past. Thank you for posting this video!
@paolazuffinetti2 жыл бұрын
What a lovely way to study literature! A HUGE THANKS!
@Richardwestwood-dp5wr Жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting this gem 💎 💖
@rahawa7742 жыл бұрын
Your documentaries are accompanied by the most delicious and apposite music choices - thank you so much for many hours well spent!
@giovanna7222 жыл бұрын
I was just wondering what the slow piano piece in E was at around 13:00. It is so lovely I stopped listening to the narrator.
@JimiHendrix9982 жыл бұрын
Thank you, for a delightful precis of the life of a great writer.
@miriamaguilar7977 Жыл бұрын
I thoroughly enjoyed this mini documentary on Henry James. A prolific writer of the heart and the haunted. Love his stories, especially acted out on KZbin movies. Thank you!
@donaldkelly39833 жыл бұрын
I have come to love James' fiction in the past ten years. Thanks for posting!
@AuthorDocumentaries3 жыл бұрын
Of course!
@stevehinnenkamp56252 жыл бұрын
What a marvelous, encompassing tribute!! THANK YOU, ,sir, for bringing to light the life of Henry James.
@davidlee67202 жыл бұрын
am an artist myself, been in books, exhibitions, also write as well, are is plays any good?
@stevehinnenkamp56252 жыл бұрын
@@davidlee6720 No, they were considered 'bad-box-office' and never produced for the most part. All characters sounded like Henry James, minus his clinical narrative. The characters simply do not live by dialog and cannot transmit to the audience. Damn shame!
@pamelaferreira4594 Жыл бұрын
Mr Darcy of Pride and Prejudice.
@catlover34fl2 жыл бұрын
Why no mention of one of his most famous novels, "Washington Square?" This was a fascinating story. When it was made into a major academy award winning film in 1949 "The Heiress" it became a favorite of mine. Olivia de Havilland won an Oscar for her performance. Unforgettable story.
@montanagal69582 жыл бұрын
Monty
@margo3367 Жыл бұрын
There was also a 1997 film called ‘Washington Square’, starring Albert Finney, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ben Chaplin and Maggie Smith. It was brilliantly acted. One could really feel the father’s passive aggressive abuse (Finney) and the daughter’s (JJL) conflicted love for her father and then when she finds “love”, desperation to be out of her father’s house. And Maggie Smith as the aunt, well what can I say? She was brilliant, as always.
@srothbardt Жыл бұрын
@bethbartlett5692 Жыл бұрын
It's a reflection, not a full bio documentary.
@kathybutterfield27605 ай бұрын
I just got it from the library and watched it today. Because Scorsese said it was one of his best favorite films. It was nearly perfect technically and the acting was superb. But the story was compelling. You couldn't wait to see what happened next. But it was a very poignant story. Loved it. Watched it twice in a row.
@JudeNance3 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for writing about this great writer. 🎉
@poetcomic12 жыл бұрын
I'm still in love with Madame de Vionnet from The Ambassadors. Has anyone ever fallen in love with a fictional character? It is very painful.
@patriciajrs462 жыл бұрын
Yes, it is painful. I have.
@janethayes59412 жыл бұрын
This is one of the most romantic things I've heard. Thank you for sharing this comment.
@funtimehappytime9263 Жыл бұрын
Anna Karenina
@poetcomic1 Жыл бұрын
@@funtimehappytime9263 Ouch! That must be hard on you! Stay away from train tracks.
@artieash6671 Жыл бұрын
Mr. Darcy, Mr. Rochester, Rhett Butler.
@SueFerreira75 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for these documentaries but also for the classical music. My friends and I often bemoan the slow disappearance of the classical performances.
@HerAeolianHarp2 жыл бұрын
So glad to have discovered your fine channel.
@evelyncagle95952 жыл бұрын
I treasure his writing. His work nurtures me.
@stevenalvin1672 жыл бұрын
Yeah so beautiful 🥰 Evelyn my friend 😊 and I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day, I'm Steven by name from Happy camp and you where are you from?
@caroldixon77962 жыл бұрын
The narrator did such a beautiful job. This was a fascinating biography thank you for posting.
@Josingable2 жыл бұрын
I find his voice beautiful - it's so smooth and eloquent
@stevenalvin1672 жыл бұрын
Yeah so beautiful 🥰 Carol my friend and I pray to God to give you a lot of beautiful days and I hope God bless you to have a great day, I'm Steven by name from Happy camp and you where are you from?
@furiosaningveryserious71043 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for the uploading. James is a true gem for depicting human psychological complexities.
@AuthorDocumentaries3 жыл бұрын
Much welcome! Agreed
@petercrossley1069 Жыл бұрын
Richard Grant narrates beautifully. The text misses out however on his playwriting and successes and failures and dramas in his life.
@arthurboehm Жыл бұрын
This documentary provides the decor of James' life without examining in any way the nature of his work, his writing. He was a revolutionary, a kind of modernist who captured nothing less than the full depth of human consciousness. No one who reads James, who follows him on the page, is the same.
@karaamundson39642 жыл бұрын
"Turn of a Screw" freaked me stone dead when I read it at age 19. This, after "Sound & the Fury," "Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad," "The Shining," and plenty of other up-front crazy and/or bone-chilling reads. Nope. Henry James knocked it out of the park. ...the film is heartstoppingly terrifying, too!
@normanleach5427 Жыл бұрын
...a gothic ghost story and concurrently, a tale written as psychological realism.
@marclayne92613 жыл бұрын
Henry James......The Portrait of a Literary Genius....
@ЮлияКоршунова-п2о2 жыл бұрын
So well done documebrary...enjoyable ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
@mrs.cracker46222 жыл бұрын
Many thanks!
@JCPJCPJCP3 жыл бұрын
Excellent video. I enjoyed this one; especially the scenes of his time in Newport, which is close to where I live and which I know fairly well. But I thought it neglected the books in favor of his life and I wished it had been twice or thrice as long. Many years ago, I read Leon Edel's monumental life of Henry James. In 5 volumes and over 2000 pages, it's the longest book I've ever read--and I recommend it highly. It's been condensed into one volume and received plenty of critical acclaim as such. The only novel by James that I've read is "The American," which I've read 3 times and really admired. The music by Brahms in this video added to its overall excellence. Thanks again.
@AuthorDocumentaries3 жыл бұрын
2000 pages. That's amazing. And here I am hemming and hawing over Ulysses and Moby Dick. Glad you liked the doc. I did notice the lack of novel discussion too
@yeowkl75412 жыл бұрын
@@AuthorDocumentaries Oh, I love so many of his novels like The Ambassador, The Bostonians and Driving Miss Daisy (this one was a translation in Indonesian language) some 30 years ago. I somehow love James longish and meandering passages) and will read these books again just to enjoy his descriptive sentences.
@lawsonj392 жыл бұрын
@@yeowkl7541 Driving Miss Daisy? I think you must mean Daisy Miller; Driving Miss Daisy was a 1989 film.
@zharapatterson2 жыл бұрын
Henry James, is one of my favorite authors, I think he deserves a proper Literary Bio Documentary, done by PBS or the BBC.
@lawsonj392 жыл бұрын
It's nice that several of his novels and stories have been made into films.
@denizalgazi2 жыл бұрын
I doubt his private life will be discussed.
@mmedeuxchevaux2 жыл бұрын
Such a beautifully made documentary.
@johnochiltree11702 жыл бұрын
I’m reading the library of americas first volume of Henry james’ short stories and I love them!
@kathleenbrady9916 Жыл бұрын
Informative though the loud music almost drowned the speaker out😕
@joansutton5 ай бұрын
In about 1958 I was 17 years old. My father gave me Huxley's "Brave New World." I thought it was great and asked for another one that good. He gave me Orwell's "1984." I loved it. After that I asked him to give me something as good as the first two: He gave me "The Turn of the Screw." It was just as good.
@Poeme3402 жыл бұрын
Excellent-thank you!
@chubbybrain2 жыл бұрын
Your narration is perfection . My grammar is not
@montanagal69582 жыл бұрын
Washington Square...wow, loved that story! Imagine writing a story about where you lived as a child...Thank-you!
@barbarabonanno18794 ай бұрын
The Portrait of a Lady is epic. Isabel and her monster husband are one of literature's deepest portrayals of a tragic marriage. And her visit to her beloved cousin's deathbed makes me cry every time I read it. James always presents us with extensive descriptions of his character's public selves, while delving into their most private motives and behaviors at the same time.
@MannyEspinola-q4t5 ай бұрын
Thank you for this video
@puja74532 жыл бұрын
You didn't discuss his works.
@stevenyourke79012 жыл бұрын
Henry Janes was a repressed homosexual and a literary genius of the first order.
@denizalgazi2 жыл бұрын
Shhhh… we're not supposed to mention that bit!
@TomorrowWeLive2 жыл бұрын
Second order at best
@elizabetharce50415 ай бұрын
Background music is too loud & distracting
@519djw62 жыл бұрын
*Thank for this enlightening introduction to Henry James! However, I have to confess that, with the exception of "Washington Square" and "Daisy Miller," I find his other "major" works to be unreadable--with their long, serpentine sentences that seem to go on forever, to the extent that once I've gotten to the end of one sentence I've forgotten how it started!*
@TomorrowWeLive2 жыл бұрын
I believe he got more 'literary' as he got older, to the detriment of his writing.
@lindarichards4408 Жыл бұрын
Off the subject but I had the same experience trying to read "Ben Hur" ---by the time I reached the bottom of the page I'd forgotten how it began 🙄
@nmuphelps12 жыл бұрын
It's like writing about the great Oscar Wilde without mentioning the importance of his gaiety!
@frenchartantiquesparis4242 жыл бұрын
This should be called "The Places Henry James Lived....."
@MarkMaciag-dz9gb5 ай бұрын
No kidding. 17 minutes in and I’m getting nothing here about him.
@andrewgibbon-williams79742 жыл бұрын
Well done Mr Hossick- I try... but I still find him almost impossible to read.
@ElizabethRichter-o6u5 ай бұрын
For Americans it was much cheaper to live in Europe at the time. So if your money was running low you’d just go to Europe. That’s what happened with the James family.
@MrCrowebobby2 жыл бұрын
Weird, I know, but I've never thought of Henry James as ever being young.
@rebekahcrossman4690 Жыл бұрын
Henry James himself would have been bored to tears listening to this narrator.
@thomascreeley36272 жыл бұрын
A pleasure!
@patriciajrs462 жыл бұрын
Who was the John Rogers that you speak of toward the end of your video? Please, what year would that have been, that Henry met John Rogers? I am a Rogers by birth.
@climatedamage18113 ай бұрын
The music's volume is distracting.
@jillg151 Жыл бұрын
Stayed with it as long as I could. Good subject, history, footage, but once again some squeaky violinist etc noisily scraping away all through it distracting from the subject.
@darkhorse61643 күн бұрын
There are no prizes for complaining. If you don’t like it, watch something else. This attitude might get you further in life.
@srothbardt Жыл бұрын
Very interesting. I think we may have the origin of “The Turn of the Screw” in James Sr. ‘s early experience. I think he wrote about himself, as in “The American “. and “Beast in the Jungle.”
@GHIDALIA18 ай бұрын
PORTRAIT OF A LADY IS HIS MASTERPIECE ,
@bethbartlett5692 Жыл бұрын
Nice excerpt on Henry James (Key: define what caused him Writer's Block, Henry's personal wavering flow of free thought energies, that charity, confidence, and direction, and what was interfering in his having it, what allowed it?) ie: 15:30 -->
@nceleste632 жыл бұрын
His book Washington Square is how I came to admire Henry James work. I sometimes wish I could listen in on his conversations with the greats during his time, especially Lady Edith Wharton.
@votemonty18153 жыл бұрын
"It's time to start living the life you've imagined." ~The Master Himself ✒
@AuthorDocumentaries3 жыл бұрын
Great quote!
@patriciajrs462 жыл бұрын
I wish I knew how to do that. What forward step is most productive?
@danielmorris36872 жыл бұрын
@@patriciajrs46 The 1st one! All journeys begin with that 1st step. ✌️🇨🇦
@petercrossley2956 Жыл бұрын
Philistine that I am, I cannot appreciate James' purple prose. As a short story writer and journalist, my prose borders on the mauve but James' prose is beyond my simple grasp. In all honesty, please, some one, explain to me the importanse of Henry James' stories. This is not a challenge nor do I ask it lightly, I want to know: What is the intrinsic worth of Henry James' written works. I ask in all humility for an honest answer,
@ElizabethRichter-o6u5 ай бұрын
The short stories don’t have those serpentine sentences. His problem with sentence length arose in his old age when he started dictating to a typist. James dissected the human heart with tremendous skill and developed the novel as a form beyond what had been achieved before. For this reason he is “The Master”.
@julianabeatriz3573 Жыл бұрын
The narrator starts to mention Henry James works just at 23:00 on. Very late for a "Documentary" in my humble opinion....
@aya37695 ай бұрын
Music erases the text. Unaudible
@gregsmith17192 жыл бұрын
Can't understand -- Need closed captions.
@alanaadams74402 жыл бұрын
His father sure was a restless soul not so good for the children
@barrybarnes962 жыл бұрын
Houses and locations...
@dl7281 Жыл бұрын
The Turn of the Screw. *Scariest* book I’ve read despite the comma coma.
@bonzomcduffy83362 жыл бұрын
They should turn up the piano music I can still hear the narrarator.
@davidlee67202 жыл бұрын
sacrilegious to say my favourite is 'the turn of the screw' but I do love shorter fiction, and I think because of films and our shorter attention spans, we are going in that direction, so many distractions now from finding the time to read longer novels, unlike previously ...
@stevehinnenkamp56252 жыл бұрын
You certainly have a point regarding readers short attention span. Perhaps the universe is speeding up so rapidly it affects our minds. I am a big fan of Turn of the Screw. And must admit the earlier works, with more brevity won me more than HJ in later years.
@davidlee67202 жыл бұрын
@@stevehinnenkamp5625 thanks for replying
@stevehinnenkamp56252 жыл бұрын
@@davidlee6720 Thank you, for the same. I shall always have reverence for Henry James. I loved reading so much I tried to transform his unsuccessful plays into musicals! Unsuccessfully.
@blogginglife79562 жыл бұрын
true and heartbreaking
@margo3367 Жыл бұрын
Years ago, I was discussing Henry James with a coworker friend and he said, “Nothing happens”.
@ElizabethRichter-o6u5 ай бұрын
Yeah. He’s wrong.
@doughill84756 ай бұрын
Poor Erik Satie, forever doomed to be the composer of background music for podcasts.
@alexcanfor-dumas14635 ай бұрын
Everyone has their own unique mission in life. And some poor composers have to settle for elevator music their whole lives. A bitter and unavoidable destiny.
@MarlinWilliams-ts5ul5 ай бұрын
Henry James & Henry Adams, I get those two 19th century characters confused.
@Retroscoop2 жыл бұрын
Interesting, but the piano on the background distracts too much.
@scottfhannigan2 жыл бұрын
Interesting apart from the distracting background music
@xyzllii2 жыл бұрын
Have money....can travel....
@ednorton475 ай бұрын
Never trust anyone with two first names.
@pamelacorbett87745 ай бұрын
The young Henry James reminds me of Endeavour.
@RubenDario-hr4iq Жыл бұрын
Terribly old fashioned documentary. It ignores his homosexuality and instead wants us to believe he was interested in women romantically.
@crystalharris73942 жыл бұрын
💗💗💗💗
@Nina5144 Жыл бұрын
Lamb House in Rye (England) is a lovey place
@kylec27612 жыл бұрын
“in Harvard” is not a place.
@melaniamonicacraciun99002 жыл бұрын
Very good decision fans, put them thoughts on paper because they are worthy, these days become double precious, anyone is free to hold a camera making any kind of movie. Having the proper words to tell a story instead it's requested another kind of training and.. a lot of faith for sure. Exploring the other EPIC novelists experience of life might help mostly enjoying now web happenings watching such TV documentaries reunited with followers and cyber supporters, discovering the next level of human evolution, let them spiritual assets prevail because . ..we can have super human powers as well, you can do great jobs guys, let them genius writers inspire you more. Dealing these days with Putin's madness of how such a powerful man could be so unhappy frustrated and anti human, we still can dig deeper, what on earth happens to us? How come some men having nothing they worth all the fortune in the world and how could we dig out from the human DNA the secret of being good kind of guys or not. I trully hope some day bring back to life all genius minds...to replace bad guys psychopaths and criminal losers.. if we could be that lucky, let's dream forward friends, who knows?
@marymarysmarket3508 Жыл бұрын
Putin is great! 💥Russia is the righteous country!
@donnabailey9472 жыл бұрын
Too bad we can’t stop that piano.
@bethbartlett5692 Жыл бұрын
Our birthplace is this Earrh, theres no need to define boundaries by lines of borders, we are attracted ti where we feel our greater sense of Wellbeing. The whole idea of patriot is affixed ti the Lower Mind's limiting thiyghts 8f Physical and Fears, of aggressiins and wars. Grow into the Higher Mind, axa the Mature Mind to experience the intended Journey. The other is limiting.
@shawnburnham12 жыл бұрын
21:00
@inkyguy2 жыл бұрын
Thirty minutes, several mentions of presumed heterosexual relationships and not a single mention that he was gay.
@eleanoraquitaine29662 жыл бұрын
Who cares?
@JohnBaldwin1002 жыл бұрын
Clearly the documentary makers cared as they whitewashed his sexuality in implying he was heterosexual.
@eleanoraquitaine29662 жыл бұрын
@@JohnBaldwin100 Why is his sexuality so important to you? I have a feeling he would have preferred other people mind their own business in that respect.
@JohnBaldwin1002 жыл бұрын
You clearly don't seem to mind that the documentary implies that he was heterosexual. I would ask why do you care that someone points out he wasn't? Throughout history LGBTQ people have been made invisible. Many people have argued that James' sexuality was a big influence on his writing. when we understand the full history of an artist it helps us understand their work all the more.
@eleanoraquitaine29662 жыл бұрын
@@JohnBaldwin100 Why is publicly announcing his or anyone's sexual orientation so important to you?
@patriciajrs462 жыл бұрын
If he wrote horror stories I won't be reading them. I can't read the books by Stephen King. They aren't my thing.
@mikec67332 жыл бұрын
Never worked a day in his life. Must've been nice. Sheesh.
@stevenyourke79012 жыл бұрын
You don’t think that writing novels of genius is “work”?
@stevenyourke79012 жыл бұрын
In case you haven’t noticed “work” is a four letter word. If Henry Hanes had been forced to “work”, he would never have produced the works of genius that he did produce! Great literary talent should be provided with sufficient funds to enable them to write without having to worry about the necessity of earning a living.
@mikec67332 жыл бұрын
@@stevenyourke7901 I do not disagree completely, but I have a caveat. Reality vs mental masturbation Think think think words words words Who cares? Human life is accessible to those who engage with life at a basic level. Ivory towers breed brilliant douche sucklers.
@ElizabethRichter-o6u5 ай бұрын
Are you referring to Henry James or his father. In those days people still valued the kind of life where you had inherited money and had no need to work. It was admired not looked down upon. The focus of many of James tales was the attempt of😅 both men and women to jockey into an economic position thru marriage where they did not need to work.
@sandiangel2 жыл бұрын
I can't imagine moving around that much while maintaining friends and writing on top of it. They had so much clothes back then. Suits, and great coats, gloves, top hats. And the women w their many skirts and frocks and furs and hats. Traveling in trains and ships and carriages. How'd they live from place to place and transfer all their furniture and on and on. They must have had an army of people hired to move them around. What happened to his dog when he moved yet again? Maybe the people he hired in London kept it, as he j jaunted off to Italy or France or Rome or Florence or back to America for the hundredth time on another voyage. 😀. Can't imagine living like that. All the museums and culture, bouncing around everywhere.
@frenchartantiquesparis4242 жыл бұрын
Why could you not take your dog on yout travels? There were 12 dogs travelling with rich travellers on the Titanic afterall...
@suesmothers42252 жыл бұрын
My grandfather father
@Nocturne-zk3tg Жыл бұрын
How u doin? 😘
@vino1402 жыл бұрын
A thumbnail....very superficial...shallow....but the photos are good.
@noeleendarke5085 Жыл бұрын
Ruined by very LOUD music!!! Is it necessary? When you're speaking the most important parts the pianist bangs the keys like a demented squirrel running across the keys!!! Awful!!!
@mikec67332 жыл бұрын
Why look amongst his cousins for a girlfriend. Weird, no ?
@Nocturne-zk3tg Жыл бұрын
I cannot tell a lie 🍒
@guilfordcigarman Жыл бұрын
It sounded as though it was narrated by Sir John Gielgud.
@kathleenscullion8348 Жыл бұрын
Actor Richard Grant.
@mattneillninasmom Жыл бұрын
Boring. Narrator drones on and on reading a tired, uninteresting script.
@normanduke8855 Жыл бұрын
I gave up about 3/4 of the way through. That fruity voice was putting me to sleep. A thorough list of every house he ever lived in and a prohibition on all Americans, savages to a man. No thank you.
@robertsantana3261 Жыл бұрын
Terrible bio. Hardly anything about his writing process. Mainly a travelogue. Meh.
@robertsantana3261Күн бұрын
I totally agree! It’s a travelogue not a bio.
@kennedymcgovern54132 жыл бұрын
Haha, I came here to learn about the guy who started the Bar B Q chain.
@ronniedelahoussayechauvin67172 жыл бұрын
Stop Please🛑🛑🛑
@patriciajrs462 жыл бұрын
If his father never had a job, where did he get all of the money to keep going to Europe? The father seems to spend quite well. How did Henry afford his flat in Italy? You never mentioned that he got paid for his early writing. Okay, you did mention his pay, some.
@drinksanddice95282 жыл бұрын
Henry James Sr. had a pension from a partial inheritance after his father died. They didn't get along so James Sr. Didn't get all of the money. The $10,000 mentioned here is about $500k a year now.
@denizalgazi2 жыл бұрын
The father's income is mentioned here and also mentioned is the strong US dollar in Italy. I recommend watching this again and listening without distraction. His private life is not discussed but you can figure out that bit.
@drinksanddice95282 жыл бұрын
@@denizalgazi James Sr. also made some money from the few philosophy books he wrote, and he was friends with all of the wealth Transcendentalists in New England, so I doubt he was really paying for much anyway. I discovered last week that he actually knew Mathew Brady and didn't have to pay for that portrait of him and Henry Jr. that they had taken for mom/wife.
@patriciajrs462 жыл бұрын
@@denizalgazi Thank you. I am sorry that my life does get distracted.
@robertsantana3261Күн бұрын
Horrible bio. Mainly a travelogue. Where’s his writing process or his famous novels?? A bore.
@JSwift-jq3wn2 жыл бұрын
Henry James, mediocrity personified. Money can buy many things, but not everything. He was a repressed homosexual.
@ellenmorse85592 жыл бұрын
Adrian Borna~ So why, in your opinion, is he a mediocrity? Because he was a homosexual or because he repressed it?