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Title: The Madonna of the Future
Author: Henry James
Release Date: May 8, 2005 [eBook #2460]
Language: English
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Transcribed from the 1887 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email
ccx074@coventry.ac.uk, proofed by Jennifer Austin.
THE MADONNA OF THE FUTURE
by Henry James
We had been talking about the masters who had achieved but a single
masterpiece--the artists and poets who but once in their lives had known
the divine afflatus and touched the high level of perfection. Our host
had been showing us a charming little cabinet picture by a painter whose
name we had never heard, and who, after this single spasmodic bid for
fame, had apparently relapsed into obscurity and mediocrity.
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