SOURCE: "Strange Glory, " in L. H. Myers: A Critical Study, University College and Jonathan Cape, 1956, pp. 16-27.

In the following excerpt, Bantock maintains that while Strange Glory demonstrates Myers's interest in both mysticism and social reform, the novelist explores the former more thoroughly in this work.

Strange Glory is the shortest of Myers's books. Coming between The Root and the Flower and The Pool of Vishnu, it is the most romantic of his works and reveals more clearly, perhaps, than any of his others the strain of mysticism in him. It deals more explicitly with those transcendental standards by which our earthly desires are to be judged and in terms of which our human relationships take on significance. For once more, relationship is the central theme of the novel—though this time the theme is explored not in a social milieu but in direct contact with the earth...