SOURCE: "An Ear for Anonymity," in The Times Literary Supplement, No. 4636, February 7, 1992, pp. 17-18.

In the following favorable review of Surviving: The Uncollected Writings, Parker claims "we need Henry Green to remind us what prose can do."

Every so often, a Henry Green revival is announced. There is momentary excitement, his admirers cheer, and then, very quietly, the books slip out of print once more. The latest rescue package includes a uniform paperback edition of the novels, with introductions by Jeremy Treglown, an unhelpfully overpriced paperback edition of Pack My Bag, a volume of uncollected writings, and Trapped, a television documentary, produced by BBC's Bookmark…. This flurry of activity might have surprised Henry Vincent Yorke (1905–73), the Old Etonian businessman who hid behind the pen-name of Henry Green. Between 1926 and 1952, he published nine novels, several short stories and a premature autobiography; then stopped. "I find it so exhausting now...