![]() ![]() ![]() His early novels, such as The Man of Property (1906, first book in in The Forsyte Saga sequence) skewered the pretensions and prejudices of the well-to-do upper middle class in the Victorian era, from which Galsworthy himself had sprung. Part of the neglect of Galsworthy is sometimes attributed to his becoming identified as a once sharp critic of social injustice who eventually sold out and settled for a life of irrelevant intellectual maundering. ![]() It's been periodically lifted by movie and television treatments of The Forsyte Saga (1906–1921), a small part of the writer's output that included hundreds of novels, plays, stories, poems, essays, sketches and lectures-only to sink back into obscurity, the books unread by successive generations. Unlike them, however, after his death Galsworthy's reputation dropped quickly. In his lifetime Galsworthy was considered one of the greatest of modern writers-possibly the greatest British writer-on par with or above his colleagues Joseph Conrad and Thomas Hardy. Hence-by this line of thinking-the decline of interest in John Galsworthy. Once the times being critiqued have long passed, what should we care for the critique? This is supposed to be particularly true of writers whose work is a social critique of their times. Some writers are said to be so much of their own time they cannot be of all time. THE AUTHOR | THE WORKS | VIEWS AND QUOTES Passing greatness ![]()
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