Further Reading
Criticism
Binding, Paul. "Always Alone." New Statesman & Society 5, No. 189 (14 February 1992): 40-1.
Reviews Surviving, noting that "the object of this book is to make us focus on one of the most distinguished bodies of work in English this century."
Brunetta, Leslie. "England's Finest Hour and Henry Green's Caught." The Sewanee Review C, No. 1 (Winter 1992): 112-23.
Discusses both the plot and the writing of Caught in the historical context of World War II London.
Carison, Susan L. "Readers Reading Green Reading Readers: Discovering Henry Green through Reader Response Criticism." Language and Style: An International Journal 17, No. 2 (Spring 1984): 175-89.
Argues that "Green's emphases on dialogue, irony, technique, form, and symbols [in his fiction] are all attempts to facilitate communication between readers and texts."
Doan, Laura L. "Recuperating the Postwar Moment: Green's Back and Bacon's Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion." Mosaic 23, No. 3 (Summer 1990): 113-24.
Juxtaposes Green's novel and Francis Bacon's painting to show the complexity of the "postwar disposition" to artistic endeavor.
Facknitz, Mark A. R. "The Edge of Night: Figures of Change in Henry Green's Concluding." Twentieth Century Literature 36, No. 1 (Spring 1990): 10-22.
Explores the political implications of the "symbology" in Concluding.
Lee, Hermione. "Fretting." The New Republic 208, No. 20, Issue 4087 (17 May 1993): 48-50.
Assesses Surviving, claiming it "will add greatly to a growing posthumous reputation."
Locke, Richard. "An Elusive Genius." The Wall Street Journal CCXXI, No. 73 (15 April 1993): A12.
Finds Surviving "a fine, generous, provocative collection."
Odom, Keith C. "An Interview with John Lehmann about Henry Green." Twentieth Century Literature 29, No. 4 (Winter 1983): 395-402.
Relates Lehmann's insights on Green's life and writings during an interview on May 10, 1971.
Treglown, Jeremy. "Life and Letters: The Secret Worlds of Henry Green." The New Yorker LXVIII, No. 52 (15 February 1993): 62, 64-73.
Bio-critical study of Green's literary career.
Twentieth Century Literature 29, No. 4 (Winter 1983).
Special edition devoted to Green and his writings. Contains essays by such critics as Dorothy Lygon, Rod Mengham, and V. S. Pritchett.
Unterecker, John. "Fiction at the Edge of Poetry: Durrell, Beckett, Green." In Forms of Modern British Fiction, edited by Alan Warren Friedman, pp. 165-99. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1975.
Accounts for the poetic or cinematic quality of Green's Loving and Pack My Bag, Lawrence Durrell's Tunc and Numquam, and Samuel Beckett's How It Is as a condition of twentieth-century fiction.
Wall, Stephen. "Admiring." London Review of Books 14, No. 6 (26 March 1992): 14-15.
Favorable review of Surviving, Pack My Bag, and Loving, in which Wall states that Green "now seems to have more to offer us than any of his novelist contemporaries."
Wood, James. "In Front of the Servants." Manchester Guardian Weekly 146, No. 10 (8 March 1992): 27.
Positive review of Surviving, praising the volume's "idiomatic treasures, the neologisms, the retrieved archaicisms."
Interview
Southern, Terry. An interview with Henry Green. The Paris Review 5, No. 19 (Summer 1958): 61-77.
An interview in which Green comments on his literary anonymity, his writing style and habits, and the future of the novel genre.
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