ABSTRACT
Murry’s own regrets were altogether outweighed by relief. Not that he was glad to see the paper go down – he had been hoping to hand it over to a successor. But as far as he was personally concerned, it had served its turn. It had established his reputation as a critic, so that he could now afford to live abroad on his earnings; and his labours were appropriately rewarded by two invitations: one from Sir Walter Raleigh, to deliver a course of six lectures at Oxford; and one, which, he valued still more highly, from Hardy, to visit him in Dorset. His reconciliation with Katherine this spring, moreover, bore more than a casual resemblance to that of five years before – and as at Bandol, so at Menton, issued in a new creative spell. His lectures, The Problem of Style, were themselves its first-fruits.
