John Galsworthy’s Life and Art: An Alien’s Fortress

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
A Retrospective Introduction....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Galsworthys and Bartleets....Pages 15-37
Conventions and Responses....Pages 38-70
“You Are Just the Person to Write, Why Don’t You?”....Pages 71-94
“To Invent Depths Is Not Art Either”....Pages 95-113
“I’m Not Such a Fool as I Seem”....Pages 114-150
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
“I Feel More Like a Sort of Chemist”....Pages 153-187
“We Want No More Bastard Drama”....Pages 188-216
“The Opposition (Spiritual) in The Country House”....Pages 217-241
“Almost Passionate Impartiality”....Pages 242-281
Emotion Elevated....Pages 282-317
“Sublimity Is Lost as You Go Down”....Pages 318-343
Front Matter....Pages 345-345
Galsworthy Semi-detached....Pages 347-373
“But Christ’s Not Real, and Hindenburg and Harmsworth Are!”....Pages 374-394
Three John Galsworthys and “A Wonderful Red Letter Day”....Pages 395-414
“Demi-Semi-Royal Progress”....Pages 415-432
“The Shores of Permanence”....Pages 433-456
“Christ’s Vicar in the Theatre”....Pages 457-474
Front Matter....Pages 475-475
“I Have Lost Fervour”....Pages 477-499
Comedy and Civilization “Above the Plimsoll Line of Property”....Pages 500-525
Front Matter....Pages 475-475
“And John Deserved to be God Too”....Pages 526-563
Back Matter....Pages 564-616