Henry Green Summary

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, ... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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 ... Read more

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 relieve... Read more

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 t... Read more