Propter, however, is less amused and delivers the most vehement attack on literature so far seen in Huxley's work. In the novel After Many a Summer (1939), one orator's glib declaration that in art 'the Religious Spirit most clearly manifested itself' this century, is greeted with an irreverent 'Cripes!' (70). The harshest criticism came in the mid- to late 1930s, as though Huxley at first needed to firmly reject literature in an act of penitential purgation before taking up any other position. He was most severe toward literature when first settling its status in relation to mysticism, but this eventually mellowed into fond regret. It is more accurate to say that a previous disenchantment with literature encouraged his move toward mysticism. However, it must be stressed that Huxley's religious conversion was not in itself responsible for his disparagement of literature. Since Huxley henceforth regarded literature from the mystical perspective, its limits were made even more plain. now I find myself wanting something more, something heavenlier, something less human' (302). In Eyeless in Gaza (1936), the mature Staithes speaks for Huxley when he records that art 'used to be an escape and a support. No paragraph of this publica! ion may be repmduced, copied or transmitted save with written pem1ission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the tem1s nf any licence pcnnitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Toucnham Court Road, London WIP So Huxley turned elsewhere.
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