John Middleton Murry

John Middleton Murry (6 August 1889 – 12 March 1957) was an English writer and critic. He was prolific, producing more than 60 books and thousands of essays and reviews on literature, social issues, politics, and religion during his lifetime.

Quotes

• Whatever may have been our final judgment on the strange novel of M. Marcel Proust, 'Du Côté de chez Swann,' which appeared in the year before the war—and the book at least had this obviously in common with a great work of literature, that it lent itself to judgment on many different planes—the persistent element in all our changing opinions was that it marked the arrival of a new sensibility. We were being made aware in new ways, induced to perceive existence in new relations.
  • "M. Marcel Proust: A New Sensibility". The Quarterly Review 238: 86–100. July 1922, quote p. 88

• For a good man to realize that it is better to be whole than to be good is to enter on a strait and narrow path compared to which his previous rectitude was flowery license.
  • As quoted in Centering (1989) by M. C. Richards

External links

• Works by John Middleton Murry at Project Gutenberg
• Letters from John Middleton Murry to Lord and Lady Glenavy in theGeorge Lazarus Collection
• J M Murry and Katherine Mansfield's relationship from a new biography by Kathleen Jones