Quotes from Harlan Greene

Instead of transcendence and renunciation, Hervey, having learned the lesson of "the existence of a Oneness of Earth and Man," instead embraced the physical world "over which a Sublime Compassion casts an illusion of beauty.

It was his own miscegenation--his sensual enjoyment of a dark forbidden culture and his own forbidden longings and love--that dovetailed in his writings.

Hervey was not praising the city but suggesting that things like adultery and bad mothering existed in the white downtown aristocratic neighborhoods, and not just among the poor blacks who inhabited Heyward's novels Mamba's Daughters and Porgy.