SOURCE: A review of 'The Necessity of Belief, in The Criterion, Vol. XV, No. LXI, July, 1936, pp. 718-21.

In the following essay, a review of The Necessity of Belief, Heppenstall treats Gill primarily as a one-man phenomenon rather than as a thinker.

Outside his engraving, his sculpture and his lettering, Mr. Gill has to be regarded, I fancy, rather as a personal legend than as a true teacher. He is important as the creator rather of an important phantasy than of as important intellectual structure. He expounds a way of life. It is the way of pre-Tridentine Christianity, under post-War Capitalism, generated by William Morris and adapted to a generation which knows its D. H. Lawrence by the superaddition of a great deal of manly-tender paganism. And Mr. Gill's ability to sustain this phantasy with far more conviction than all the other contemporary mediævalists is due, precisely...