'Re-Appraisals is a protest against the prevailing assumptions and directions of our whole literary culture- its arrogance, its irresponsibility, but above all its domination by the cliches of modern despair. Green is consistently asking a very simple question: is this book any good? And he shows us just how various and liberating a really steady response to that question can be.

'Re-Appraisals is a protest against the prevailing assumptions and directions of our whole literary culture- its arrogance, its irresponsibility, but above all its domination by the cliches of modern despair. Green is consistently asking a very simple question: is this book any good? And he shows us just how various and liberating a really steady response to that question can be.