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Edward Morgan Forster

 

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Edward Morgan Forster : 

[the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual development of the time, discovering such writers as Bergson, Sorel, Havelock Ellis, Galsworthy, Conrad, E.M. Forster, Joyce and Lawrence, the last two being contributed by me, for I had seen them mentioned in the New Age by Ezra Pound".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir      Print: Book

  

Edward Morgan Forster : 

'Aunty Etty wrote of E.M. Forster, "His novel is really NOT good; and it's too unpleasant for the girls to read. I very much hope he will turn to something else".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henrietta Darwin      Print: Book

  

Edward Morgan Forster : "The Greek Feeling for Nature"

E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 3 March 1898: 'I have just read a paper to the Classical Society on "The Greek Feeling for Nature"; everyone sat upon it very much, and disagreed with everything I said.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Edward Morgan Forster : paper

E. M. Forster to Leonard Woolf, 1 January 1905: 'I was up [at Cambridge] for a fortnight, and read the Society [i.e. the Apostles] a paper, which, if I find it, I will send you [...] No one thought there was much in it (Strachey, Sheppard, Keynes, present). You may throw it away.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Edward Morgan Forster : Aspects of the Novel

'[After lunch] I shall come back and begin an article I am to write about the technique of the novel for Canby - suggested by a book of E.M. Forster's, which is pretty bad'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: Book

  

Edward Morgan Forster : Passage to India, A

'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem of Anglo-India with citations from the book. F.E. Pollard followed giving more the Indian Attitude with a reading to explain this. After an interval for Refreshments there was an interesting discussion on these papers and on the Book and its problems. R.B. Graham read a good portion of the trial scene and Miss Marriage read a part of the last chapter bringing a most interesting evening to a conclusion leaving us more than doubtful as to how far we had fathomed the author's purpose & ideas.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Pollard      Print: Book

  

Edward Morgan Forster : Passage to India, A

'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem of Anglo-India with citations from the book. F.E. Pollard followed giving more the Indian Attitude with a reading to explain this. After an interval for Refreshments there was an interesting discussion on these papers and on the Book and its problems. R.B. Graham read a good portion of the trial scene and Miss Marriage read a part of the last chapter bringing a most interesting evening to a conclusion leaving us more than doubtful as to how far we had fathomed the author's purpose & ideas.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: R.B. Graham      Print: Book

  

Edward Morgan Forster : Passage to India, A

'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem of Anglo-India with citations from the book. F.E. Pollard followed giving more the Indian Attitude with a reading to explain this. After an interval for Refreshments there was an interesting discussion on these papers and on the Book and its problems. R.B. Graham read a good portion of the trial scene and Miss Marriage read a part of the last chapter bringing a most interesting evening to a conclusion leaving us more than doubtful as to how far we had fathomed the author's purpose & ideas.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Marriage      Print: Book

  

Edward Morgan Forster : Passage to India, A

'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem of Anglo-India with citations from the book. F.E. Pollard followed giving more the Indian Attitude with a reading to explain this. After an interval for Refreshments there was an interesting discussion on these papers and on the Book and its problems. R.B. Graham read a good portion of the trial scene and Miss Marriage read a part of the last chapter bringing a most interesting evening to a conclusion leaving us more than doubtful as to how far we had fathomed the author's purpose & ideas.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamund Wallis      Print: Book

 

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