Living and Loving
1 Citations•1983•
Angus Wilson
Nineteenth-Century Literature
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Abstract
Already younger critics and academics here and in the United States are rediscovering the unique mixture of force and elegance that distinguishes Henry Green's use of language. In France his reputation in the critical world has never waned. But his craft and the suffusing poetry of his words are the manner of his books; the content, his celebration of shared humanity transcending the perils of class and alienation, of absurdity, insensitivity and despair, deserves, needs, a wider audience for whom his stylistic mastery will be only unconsciously felt through the revelation of what he has to tell it about the ultimate triumph of love, however momentary, over disaster, loneliness and death.