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Henry Green has been called a "writer's writer's writer" because of the high praise he has received from fellow literary practitioners such as T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, V. S. Pritchett, Eudora Welty, ...
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Toynbee was an English novelist, journalist, editor, and critic. In the following essay, he discusses the "linguistic oddities" of Green's novels, finding them distracting but eff...
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In the following favorable review of Surviving: The Uncollected Writings, Parker claims "we need Henry Green to remind us what prose can do."
Every so often, a Henry Green revival is ann...
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In the following essay, Hall explores the role of what he calls "play-and-pain" in Green's novels, focusing especially on Loving and Concluding.
Henry Green published his first no...
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Lees-Milne was an English novelist, autobiographer, and nonfiction writer. In the following essay, he reminisces about his initial reactions to Green's novels.
I got to know Henry Yorke in the ...
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In the following essay on Blindness, Brothers examines the themes of the work, concluding that the novel "is a dramatization of the individual's poignant, failed quest for meaning and un...
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In the following essay, Wall traces the development of the themes of passage and renewal in Green's novels, stating "Green's fiction locates a neglected area of adult experience i...
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In the essay below, Russell assesses the short stories "A Rescue," "Mr. Jonas," and "The Lull" in terms of their evocation of a "limbo-like" sta...
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In the following essay, Gibson examines Green's experiments with traditional conventions of the novel form in his fiction, comparing his novels to those of James Joyce, Marcel Proust, and Franz...
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Below, Engel relates the theme of love and "a hope for transformation" in Green's novels to questions of class and gender. He also speculates on why Green stopped writing.
The cas...
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Critical Essay by Michael Dirda
More virtuoso performance than novel, Blindness remains beguiling for its prefiguration of the major themes and techniques of Green's mature fiction: the exact r...
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Critical Essay by Irving Howe
The fiction of Henry Green is utterly English in tone. A disdain for used-up rhetoric, a nervous eccentricity of voice, a liking for understatement now and again relieved...
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Critical Essay by Richard Horn
Now that at least [Loving, Living, and Party Going by] Henry Green, most neglected of twentieth-century novelists, have been reissued (along with Blindness, his first no...
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Critical Essay by Ben Yagoda
A host of conflicts animate Green's books—between the classes, between the generations, between expectation and reality—but none is so prevalent as th...
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Henry Vincent Yorke
Critical Essay by Philip Toynbee
