| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | E. M. Forster, "Jane Austen," in Abinger Harvest (1924): 'She is my favourite author! I read and re-read, the mouth o... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jane Austen | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' ... in Egypt during the Great War [E. M.] Forster applied himself to read [Henry] James. Struggling with What Maisi... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | What Maisie Knew | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1911 E. M. Forster read "with mingled joy and disgust" "A School History of England", which Kipling and C. R. L. F... | Edward Morgan Forster | Rudyard and C. R. L. Kipling and Fletcher | A School History of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 13 February 1898:
'Have you read Crockett's new book, the Adventures of Sir T... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Rutherford Crockett | The Surprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 3 March 1898:
'I will tell how I spent my prize money. I got Browning's Poems ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 3 March 1898:
'I have just read a paper to the Classical Society on "The Greek... | Edward Morgan Forster | Edward Morgan Forster | "The Greek Feeling for Nature" | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 7 May 1899:
'Thank you very much [...] for the Punches & Antiquaries which I m... | Edward Morgan Forster | | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 7 May 1899:
'Thank you very much [...] for the Punches & Antiquaries which I m... | Edward Morgan Forster | | The Antiquary: A Magazine Devoted to the Study of the Past | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 7 May 1899:
'Thank you very much [...] for the Punches & Antiquaries which I m... | Edward Morgan Forster | | Nature Notes | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, ?summer 1899:
'I hear much of Mr Dimbleby, and have tried to read his books. ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jabez Bunting Dimbleby | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to George Barger, 27 July 1899:
'I have had a good time in Scotland & here [Northumberland] & go home... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | Portrait of a Lady | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to George Barger, 27 July 1899:
'I have had a good time in Scotland & here [Northumberland] & go home... | Edward Morgan Forster | Maurice Hewlett | The Forest Lovers: A Romance | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 5 November 1899:
'I have been reading Bernard Shaw's plays. Wonderfully cleve... | Edward Morgan Forster | George Bernard Shaw | plays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 9 April 1905:
'At 2.45 I and Herr Steinweg [German tutor employed by the Coun... | Edward Morgan Forster | | 'The Child's first Lesebuch' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 9 April 1905:
'Elizabeth [employer] has lent me Erewhon which I am enjoying.' | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Butler | Erewhon; or, Over the Range | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Arthur Cole, 11 April 1905:
'Have you read Erewhon? Now I'm at Marius the Epicurean.' | Edward Morgan Forster | Walter Pater | Marius the Epicurean | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 2 July 1905:
'In the evening I read Elizabeth [employer] "Emma". Liebeth [emp... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Arthur Cole, 7 July 1905, following satirical account of English travellers met the previous day:
... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Arthur Cole, 7 July 1905, following satirical account of English travellers met the previous day:
... | Edward Morgan Forster | Anatole France | Thais | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 3 Ocotber 1906:
'You would hardly know me, so violently has Chartres gothicise... | Edward Morgan Forster | Joris-Karl Huysmans | La Cathedrale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Edward Garnett, 28 October 1907:
'You said I might write to you about The Breaking Point. I think ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Edward Garnett | A Censored Play: The Breaking Point | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Hugh Walpole, 19 July 1908:
'I can say without preamble that it's good -- the theme is ample and f... | Edward Morgan Forster | Hugh Walpole | The Wooden Horse / 'The House of the Trojans' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 10 February 1910:
'I left off the last [letter to Darling] saying that I was goin... | Edward Morgan Forster | Ernest B. Havell | Indian Sculpture and Painting ... with an Explanation of Their Motives and Ideals | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Ottoline Morrell, 2 April 1910:
'I am reading Les Freres Karamazov, but am so far a little disappo... | Edward Morgan Forster | Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Brothers Karamazov | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 15 April 1910:
'Just now I am enthralled by Gibbon's Autobiography. There are pas... | Edward Morgan Forster | Edward Gibbon | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 June 1910:
'I am reading Manucci's "Storia do Mogor" -- a most entertaining bo... | Edward Morgan Forster | Niccolo Manucci | Storia do Mogor; or Mogul India, 1653-1708 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 August 1910:
'Do you get any time for reading? I am taking huge chunks of Mat ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Matthew Arnold | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Syed Ross Masood, mid-January 1911:
'I am reading Lyall's hand book about the English in India -- ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Sir Alfred C. Lyall | British Dominion in India | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Syed Ross Masood, mid-January 1911:
'I am reading Lyall's hand book about the English in India -- ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Alice Perrin | Idolatry | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Syed Ross Masood, mid-January 1911:
'I am reading Lyall's hand book about the English in India -- ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Alice Perrin | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'E[dward]M[organ]F[orster] was reading, as well, Lyall's Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social (1882) and G. F. I. Gra... | Edward Morgan Forster | Sir Alfred C. Lyall | Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'E[dward]M[organ]F[orster] was reading, as well, Lyall's Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social (1882) and G. F. I. Gra... | Edward Morgan Forster | G. F. I. Graham | The Life and Works of Syed Ahmed Khan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911:
'I have been reading Kipling's child's history of England with ming... | Edward Morgan Forster | Rudyard Kipling | Puck of Pook's Hill | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911:
'I have been reading Kipling's child's history of England with ming... | Edward Morgan Forster | H. G. Wells | The New Machiavelli | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911:
'I have been reading Kipling's child's history of England with ming... | Edward Morgan Forster | Rosalind Murray | The Leading Note | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911:
'I have been reading Kipling's child's history of England with ming... | Edward Morgan Forster | A. Felix Wedgwood | The Shadow of a Titan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911:
'When you have a spare day [...] do send me some Indian papers -- t... | Edward Morgan Forster | Valentine Chiriol | Indian Unrest | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 24 September 1911:
'It's something to be near fine country [Simla] [...] Whether ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Thomas Hardy | novels | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 31 January 1912:
'I have read The Bracknels, and wish to thank you for it [...] it d... | Edward Morgan Forster | Forrest Reid | The Bracknels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | George Moore | Ave | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | G. L. Strachey | Landmarks in French Literature | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | J. T. Sheppard | Greek Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | Mme Augustine Bulteau | L'Ame des Anglais | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | Andre Chevrillon | Dans L'Inde | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | Forrest Reid | The Bracknels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | Lascelles Abercrombie | Emblems of Love | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | Edith Wharton | Ethan Frome | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | Max Beerbohm | Zuleika Dobson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to S. R. Masood, 8 March 1912:
'Have just dined with the Morisons -- a very interesting evening, and ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Miss Wright | poem | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 March 1912:
'I seem to have read several good books -- William James's Memorie... | Edward Morgan Forster | William James | Memories and Studies | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 March 1912:
'I seem to have read several good books -- William James's Memorie... | Edward Morgan Forster | Walter de la Mare | The Return | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 March 1912:
'I seem to have read several good books -- William James's Memorie... | Edward Morgan Forster | Amber Reeves | The Reward of Virtue | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Leonard Woolf, before 24 May 1912:
'Dear Woolf
'It's a good story. Try the English Review -- I ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Leonard Woolf | story | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 19 June 1912:
'The day before yesterday I read The Ghost Ship by R. Middleton [...] ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Richard Barham Middleton | 'The Ghost Ship' | |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 13 December 1912:
'I have read Following Darkness again, and am happier than I can t... | Edward Morgan Forster | Forrest Reid | Following Darkness | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 19 February 1913:
'Do you know Sleeman's Rambles & Recollections of an Indian ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Sir William Sleeman | Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914:
'I am not a Pro-German [...] I have read the White Paper, and Cr... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Adam Cramb | Germany and England | |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914:
'I am not a Pro-German [...] I have read the White Paper, and Cr... | Edward Morgan Forster | General Friedrich Adam Julius von Bernhardi | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914:
'I am not a Pro-German [...] I have read the White Paper, and Cr... | Edward Morgan Forster | | 'White Paper' | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914:
'Just now I sit in the N[ational]. G[allery]. having studied a n... | Edward Morgan Forster | | notice on wartime safety measures | Print: ?poster ('notice') |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915:
'I have not read Platen yet [...] German's a labour. I liked Hol... | Edward Morgan Forster | Johann Christian Friedrich Holderlin | Hyperion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915:
'I have not read Platen yet [...] German's a labour. I liked Hol... | Edward Morgan Forster | D. H. Lawrence | The White Peacock | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 2 August 1915:
'I read (and sometimes write) the New Statesman [...] also the Mor... | Edward Morgan Forster | | The New Statesman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 2 August 1915:
'I read (and sometimes write) the New Statesman [...] also the Mor... | Edward Morgan Forster | | The Morning Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 2 August 1915:
'I read (and sometimes write) the New Statesman [...] also the Mor... | Edward Morgan Forster | James Arthur Balfour | 'What Our Fleet Has Done' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 2 August 1915:
'I read (and sometimes write) the New Statesman [...] also the Mor... | Edward Morgan Forster | Count Ernst von Reventlow | 'A Year of Naval Warfare' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 August 1916:
'I saw from the Hospital Lists that an officer from Lovats Scouts ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Bridget McLagan (i.e. Mary Borden Turner) | 'Bombardment' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 August 1916:
'I saw from the Hospital Lists that an officer from Lovats Scouts ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Bridget McLagan (i.e. Mary Borden Turner) | 'Rousbrugge' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 25 August 1916:
'Your welcome letter to Darkest Africa has been followe... | Edward Morgan Forster | | 'Missionary magazine' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 25 August 1916:
'Your welcome letter to Darkest Africa has been followe... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | What Maisie Knew | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 1 January 1917:
'For the last hour I have occupied myself with copying ... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Milton | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 1 January 1917:
'For the last hour I have occupied myself with copying ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Walter Pater | Marius the Epicurean | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Wilson Plant, 14 February 1917:
'Not many books here [...] I have been enjoying Bridges and sticki... | Edward Morgan Forster | Robert Bridges, ed. | [possibly] The Spirit of Man: An Anthology in English & French from the Philosophers and Poets made by the POet Laureate in 1915 & dedicated by gracious permission to His Majesty the King | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Wilson Plant, 14 February 1917:
'Not many books here [...] I have been enjoying Bridges and sticki... | Edward Morgan Forster | Emil Zola | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Wilson Plant, 14 February 1917:
'Like you I am a great admirer of D. H. Lawrence [...] The Rainbow... | Edward Morgan Forster | D. H. Lawrence | The Rainbow | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, 5 May 1917:
'I am anxious to re-read a little history and see how its... | Edward Morgan Forster | Edward Gibbon | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Florence Barger,30 September 1917:
'Thanks for The Feet of the Young Men, but I wish I hadn't dock... | Edward Morgan Forster | | The Feet of the Young Men | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Florence Barger,30 September 1917:
'Thanks for The Feet of the Young Men, but I wish I hadn't dock... | Edward Morgan Forster | Benedict Spinoza | Ethics | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 29 January 1918:
'I am already deep in The Piddle Years [sic]. I never find Henr... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | The Middle Years | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 29 January 1918:
'I have been reading Racine and Claudel.' | Edward Morgan Forster | Jean Baptiste Racine | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 29 January 1918:
'I have been reading Racine and Claudel.' | Edward Morgan Forster | Paul Claudel | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 29 January 1918:
'Lucretius has come -- I like him very much.' | Edward Morgan Forster | Robert Trevelyan | Translations from Lucretius | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Siegfried Sassoon, 2 May 1918:
'Have just finished The Sense of the Past, and though it's so obscu... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | The Sense of the Past | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Siegfried Sassoon, 3 August 1918:
'Re the poets you mention I have read some of them both. I liked... | Edward Morgan Forster | Robert Graves | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Siegfried Sassoon, 3 August 1918:
'Re the poets you mention I have read some of them both. I liked... | Edward Morgan Forster | Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 23 August 1918:
'Thank you for your poem on Confuscius [sic]. It amused me very ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Robert Trevelyan | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 10 January 1919:
'Some of your stories I have read before, but I am enjoying and adm... | Edward Morgan Forster | Forrest Reid | 'Kenneth' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 10 January 1919:
'Some of your stories I have read before, but I am enjoying and adm... | Edward Morgan Forster | Forrest Reid | 'The Trial of Witches' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [following transcribed passage on 'gravity,' from Tristram Shandy I.ii]
'Insight vitiated by instinct of self defen... | Edward Morgan Forster | Laurence Sterne | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'More I reflect on the novel the higher I place it: attempts to read Swift, Miss Burney, Smollett, place it on a pinna... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jonathan Swift | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'More I reflect on the novel the higher I place it: attempts to read Swift, Miss Burney, Smollett, place it on a pinna... | Edward Morgan Forster | Frances Burney | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'More I reflect on the novel the higher I place it: attempts to read Swift, Miss Burney, Smollett, place it on a pinna... | Edward Morgan Forster | Tobias Smollett | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Commonplace Book entries made during 1926, E. M. Forster comments upon, and transcribes passages from, Defoe's Mol... | Edward Morgan Forster | Daniel Defoe | Moll Flanders | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Percy Lubbock] thinks ["The Craft of Fiction" -- a sensitive yet poor spirited book] that the aim of a novel should ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Percy Lubbock | The Craft of Fiction | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Impossible to read a Meredith as simply and fairly as a Fielding, with one eye fixed on the author's interests and th... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Impossible to read a Meredith as simply and fairly as a Fielding, with one eye fixed on the author's interests and th... | Edward Morgan Forster | George Meredith | Evan Harrington | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Among entries made in 1926 in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book is a passage from Vanbrugh, The Provok'd Wife III.i (op... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Vanbrugh | The Provok'd Wife | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Robinson Crusoe an English book -- and only the English could have accepted it as adult literature: comforted by feel... | Edward Morgan Forster | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Robinson Crusoe an English book -- and only the English could have accepted it as adult literature: comforted by feel... | Edward Morgan Forster | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Gulliver is Robinson Crusoe in Fairy Land [...]
'[quotes] He said the [italics]Struldbrugs[end italics] commonly ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Clarissa Harlowe. Have read 1/3 of [...] Certainly I am bored, but the book is not tedious through repetition -- the ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Among texts discussed and quoted from at length in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Henry James, The Ambassad... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | The Ambassadors | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Among texts discussed and quoted from in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Norman Douglas, D. H. Lawrence and ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Norman Douglas | D. H. Lawrence and Maurice Magnus: A Plea for Better Manners | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Among texts discussed and quoted from in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Herman Melville, Billy Budd, with r... | Edward Morgan Forster | Herman Melville | Billy Budd | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Great Expectations. Alliance between atmosphere and plot (the convicts) make it more solid and satisfactory than anyt... | Edward Morgan Forster | Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with examples inclu... | Edward Morgan Forster | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Lolly Willowes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further commen... | Edward Morgan Forster | David Garnett | A Man in the Zoo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further commen... | Edward Morgan Forster | David Garnett | Lady into Fox | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further commen... | Edward Morgan Forster | David Garnett | The Sailor's Return | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further commen... | Edward Morgan Forster | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Entries in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1926) include passage on character in tragedy from Aristotle, Poetics. | Edward Morgan Forster | Aristotle | Poetics | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcribed in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1927):
'What is principle to me? I am a Pitt. -- Lady Hester Stanho... | Edward Morgan Forster | Max Beerbohm | Letter to Lytton Strachey | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'An hour won. Dryden's Epistles read for pleasure September night windy, dark, warm, and I have read the Epistles of D... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Dryden | Epistles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Commonplace Book for 1927 E. F. Forster transcribes passage on time from vol. I, ch.iv of Thomas Mann, The Magic Mo... | Edward Morgan Forster | Thomas Mann | The Magic Mountain | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Elusiveness. Shut up always in the same carcase, one is puzzled by this charge, which is brought against me not only ... | Edward Morgan Forster | J. B. Priestley | article on E. M. Forster | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book for 1927 include Oscar Browning's reflections, quoted in H. E... | Edward Morgan Forster | H. E. Wortham | Oscar Browning | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book for 1927:
'I love me, I love me, I'm wild about myself,
I love me,... | Edward Morgan Forster | | 'I love me' (song lyric) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Under heading 'Peer Gynt': 'The main ideas of this great and bitter poem become clearer at this last hasty reading (3-... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henrik Ibsen | Peer Gynt | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Under heading 'Peer Gynt': 'The main ideas of this great and bitter poem become clearer at this last hasty reading (3-... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henrik Ibsen | Peer Gynt | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Peace has been lost on the earth and only lives outside it, in places where my imagination has not been trained to fo... | Edward Morgan Forster | E. M. Forster | short stories | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include reflections on lovers' perceptions from Fran... | Edward Morgan Forster | Francois Mauriac | Le Desert de l'Amour | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include reflections on lovers' perceptions from Fran... | Edward Morgan Forster | Francois Mauriac | La Pharisienne | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include remarks on spatial relations between man, at... | Edward Morgan Forster | A. S. Eddington | Stars and Atoms | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include character Margaret's remarks on married life... | Edward Morgan Forster | Thomas Deloney | The Gentle Craft part II | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929) include section from Horace Walpole's letter of 13 N... | Edward Morgan Forster | Horace Walpole | Letter to George Montagu, 13 November 1760 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Eddington (5.1.29). After reading his Nature of the Physical World as carefully as I can, the new ideas become more p... | Edward Morgan Forster | A. S. Eddington | The Nature of the Physical World | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929):
'It does not mattter what men say in words so long as the... | Edward Morgan Forster | A. N. Whitehead | Science and the Modern World | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929) include anecdotes on pigmies from Ernest Hubert Lewi... | Edward Morgan Forster | Ernest Hubert Lewis Schwarz | The Kalahari and its Native Races | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' "Impressions and experiences which are important for the man may take no place in the poetry, and those which become... | Edward Morgan Forster | T. S. Eliot | 'Tradition and the Individual Talent' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929-30) include descriptions and reflections on vagrants... | Edward Morgan Forster | Anton Chekhov | 'Uprooted' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Reading Vaughan [quotes two stanzas beginning 'Thou art a moon-like toil'] [...] R... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry Vaughan | 'Quickness' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Reading Vaughan [quotes two stanzas beginning 'Thou art a moon-like toil'] [...] R... | Edward Morgan Forster | F. L. Lucas | 'The Graces' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Thought, after reading little Cyril Conolly [sic], of the new generation knocking a... | Edward Morgan Forster | Cyril Connolly | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'L'Heroisme consiste a ne pas permettre au corps de renier les impudences de l'esprit
'runs an epigram of Maurois w... | Edward Morgan Forster | Andre Maurois | Byron | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Have been trying to read Solent Wolf [sic] again -- duck-weed and spittle unrelieved [...] No wonder that those Hardy... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Cowper Powys | Wolf Solent | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include three stanzas (beginning 'Old warder of these ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Alfred Tennyson | In Memoriam | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include Tennyson, 'A Farewell'. | Edward Morgan Forster | Alfred Tennyson | 'A Farewell' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include Poem LII ('Far in a western brookland') of A. ... | Edward Morgan Forster | A. E. Housman | Poem LII ('Far in a western brookland') | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include Corneille, Trois Discours ('Sur le poeme dramatique... | Edward Morgan Forster | Pierre Corneille | Trois Discours | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed, and quoted from at length, in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include The Conquest of Granada... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Dryden | The Conquest of Granada | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed, and quoted from at length, in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include The Conquest of Granada... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Dryden | An Essay of Heroic Plays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Rodogune 1646. Despite indistinct and I believe undistinguished diction, this is the most moving and exciting play of... | Edward Morgan Forster | Pierre Corneille | Rodogune | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed and quoted from in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include John Dryden, Preface to The Maiden Q... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Dryden | Preface, The Maiden Queen | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed and quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Johnson | Rasselas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed and quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Life of Sa... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Johnson | Life of [Richard] Savage | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed and quoted from in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Engli... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Johnson | Preface to Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed and quoted from in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Engli... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Johnson | Plan [for Dictionary] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [under heading 'Johnson on Othello]: 'Consulted original ed. to see if Raleigh misses out much. Naturally J. is stupid... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Johnson | remarks on Othello | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [under heading 'Johnson on Othello]: 'Consulted original ed. to see if Raleigh misses out much. Naturally J. is stupid... | Edward Morgan Forster | Walter Raleigh, ed. | Johnson on Shakespare | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [under heading 'Battle of the Books']: 'How I dislike Swift, and how is it possible to take this ill tempered ill info... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jonathan Swift | The Battle of the Books | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [under heading 'Battle of the Books']: 'How I dislike Swift, and how is it possible to take this ill tempered ill info... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jonathan Swift | A Tale of a Tub | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts on which detailed notes made in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Boileau, L'Art Poetique, comments... | Edward Morgan Forster | Nicolas Boileau | L'Art Poetique | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dante, De Vulgari Eloquentia 1309 (?) which I'd never read and now only have in translation, must have been written e... | Edward Morgan Forster | Dante Alighieri | De Vulgari Eloquentia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shaw's St Joan and Joyce's Ulysses into which I looked today (8-11-30) made me ashamed of my own writing. They have s... | Edward Morgan Forster | George Bernard Shaw | Saint Joan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shaw's St Joan and Joyce's Ulysses into which I looked today (8-11-30) made me ashamed of my own writing. They have s... | Edward Morgan Forster | James Joyce | Ulysses | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [entered in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930), underneath quoted passage opening 'I wonder what morality is, whe... | Edward Morgan Forster | J. A. Symonds | | Manuscript: Unknown, Copied from earlier transcription in Forster's hand. |
| 1900-1945 | [entered in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930), underneath quoted passage opening 'I wonder what morality is, whe... | Edward Morgan Forster | J. A. Symonds | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Texts quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1931) include Henry James, Letters, passages from whic... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | The Letters of Henry James (vol.I) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Aubrey in young John Collier's book of selections has reminded me of the value of the quaint and the charming: they m... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Aubrey | The Scandal and Credulities of John Aubrey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts from which passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book, 1931-32, include remarks on animal genitalia in ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Voltaire | Des Singularites de la Nature | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book, 1932, include this remark from Charles F. Richardson 'Critical In... | Edward Morgan Forster | Charles F. Richardson | 'Critical Introduction' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Under heading 'Invocation of Poetry by Rhetoric':
'A mass of dead words is set spinning, then kindles. [italics]Or[... | Edward Morgan Forster | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1932) include reflections by Indu Rakshit on 'the ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Indu Rakshit | | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1932) include extract from Voltaire, Charles XII B... | Edward Morgan Forster | Voltaire | Histoire de Charles XII (Book 3) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935) include (from chapter 15 of Christopher Isherwood, Mr ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Christopher Isherwood | Mr Norris Changes Trains | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935) include reflections on associations of placenames and ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Ernest Hemingway | A Farewell to Arms | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935-6) include two quotations from Herman Melville, Mardi. | Edward Morgan Forster | Herman Melville | Mardi | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935-6) include quotation from letter of Herman Melville to ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Herman Melville | Letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne, ?1 June 1851 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935-6) include quotation from Norman Douglas, Together, ope... | Edward Morgan Forster | Norman Douglas | Together | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A clean table and proper lighting make me solider, I find. Tonight I have swept all the rubbish off my board and read... | Edward Morgan Forster | Sophocles | Oedipus Tyrannus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include part of Le Morte D'Arthur, XX.3, opening: ' "... | Edward Morgan Forster | Thomas Malory | Le Morte D'Arthur | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include Zechariah I.ii:
'And they answered the Ang... | Edward Morgan Forster | | Book of Zechariah | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include five extracts from letters of Ibsen, noted as... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henrik Ibsen | passages from The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include extract from Cowley's Essay No. 5 ('The Garde... | Edward Morgan Forster | Abraham Cowley | Essay no. 5 ('The Garden') | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include the description of the death of Mr Badman's ... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Bunyan | The Life and Death of Mr Badman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include reflections upon benefits of reading both dev... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jean de la Bruyere | 'Du Coeur' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include the description of the suicide of J... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Bunyan | The Life and Death of Mr Badman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937-38) include extracts on the art and literatu... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jean Freville, trans. and ed. | Sur la Litterature et l'Art: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include Hitler's 18 July 1937 'address at M... | Edward Morgan Forster | Adolf Hitler | address on national art | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include 'Lenin-cum-Stalin on literature. Be... | Edward Morgan Forster | V. I. Lenin and Josef Stalin | (excerpted) writings on literature | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include Ruskin's remarks on Claude and the Poussins a... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Ruskin | The Stones of Venice (vol 1 chapter 1) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include General R. T. Wilson's account of five Britis... | Edward Morgan Forster | General Sir Robert Thomas Wilson | History of the British Expedition to Egypt | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include criticisms of practices of editors of Renaiss... | Edward Morgan Forster | William Gifford | Memoir of Ben Jonson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1900-1945 | Under heading 'Early Greek Science. -- And Lucretius':
'Farington (Science and Politics in the Ancient World) think... | Edward Morgan Forster | Benjamin Farington | Science and Politics in the Ancient World | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1900-1945 | Under heading 'Early Greek Science. -- And Lucretius':
'Farington (Science and Politics in the Ancient World) think... | Edward Morgan Forster | F. M. Cornford | From Religion to Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1900-1945 | Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1938) include 'The Rev. John Newton on the Messi... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Newton | Sermon IV ('The Lord Coming to His Temple') | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1938-40) include three quotations from the Dunciad (addres... | Edward Morgan Forster | Alexander Pope | The Dunciad (books I and II) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1900-1945 | 'Dispsychus -- read after many hesitations -- is not clear what world it opposes to the spirit: the world of action or... | Edward Morgan Forster | Arthur Hugh Clough | Dipsychus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1900-1945 | Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive g... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Lord Acton | A Lecture on the Study of History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1900-1945 | Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive g... | Edward Morgan Forster | William Wordsworth | The Prelude | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1900-1945 | Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive g... | Edward Morgan Forster | William Wordsworth | 'Sonnet on Napoleon' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1900-1945 | Passages quoted at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include three extracts from the Letters of Madame... | Edward Morgan Forster | Madame de Sevigne | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940-41) under heading 'Eighteenth Centuriana' include repor... | Edward Morgan Forster | R. W. Ketton-Cremer | Horace Walpole: A Biography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [under heading Voltaire's Zaide] 'The warmth of feeling between Z. and Orasmane, the easiness of the action (except in... | Edward Morgan Forster | Voltaire | Zaide | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include remarks on bigotry (opening 'Bigotry is an o... | Edward Morgan Forster | Ernest Hemingway | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941), under heading 'Wordsworth on Machinery':
'"Nor shall your p... | Edward Morgan Forster | William Wordsworth | Sonnets of the Imagination XLII | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include speech about Christmas by Dolly Winthrop in ch... | Edward Morgan Forster | George Eliot | Silas Marner | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include stanza 7 of Malherbe, 'Consolation a Monsieur ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Francois de Malherbe | 'Consolation a Monsieur du Perier, sur la Mort de sa Fille' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include stanza 32 of Malherbe, 'Pour le Roi, allant ch... | Edward Morgan Forster | Francois de Malherbe | 'Pour le Roi, allant chatier la Rebellion des Rochelois' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include remark that '[Christ] was the Son of Man, beca... | Edward Morgan Forster | Gerald Heard | The Creed of Christ: An Interpretation of the Lord's Prayer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Disappointment of God.
'The Times, in an article with this title, announced that though God is certainly disap... | Edward Morgan Forster | | 'The Disappointment of God' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sylvia's Lovers 1863, though I have not finished it, has been an eye-opener after the twitterings of Cranford. The se... | Edward Morgan Forster | Elizabeth Gaskell | Sylvia's Lovers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remarks by H. A. L. Fisher beginning: 'Men wis... | Edward Morgan Forster | H. A. L. Fisher | A History of Europe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include Ruskin's remark, from a Slade Lecture (with fi... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Ruskin | 'The Pleasures of Deed' (Lecture II in series 'The Pleasures of England') | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remark by Courier, opening 'Les gendarmes sont... | Edward Morgan Forster | Paul-Louis Courier | 'Petition pour les Villageois que l'on empeche de Danser' (1822) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remark by Paul Valery opening 'L'Histoire est ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Paul Valery | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed (and translated) in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remarks on conquerors' imposi... | Edward Morgan Forster | St Augustine | De Civitate Dei | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'That detestable father [italics]St Jerome[end italics], thus reacts to the Fall of Rome:--
'[...] When the refugee... | Edward Morgan Forster | Thomas Hodgkin | Italy and Her Invaders 376-476 (vol. I) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'That detestable father [italics]St Jerome[end italics], thus reacts to the Fall of Rome:--
'[...] When the refugee... | Edward Morgan Forster | Virgil | Aeneid (Book II) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | From Diary of E. M. Forster, 8 September 1940:
'London Burning! I watched this event from my Chiswick flat last nig... | Edward Morgan Forster | George Eliot | Middlemarch | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Following notes on 'squabble' between SS. Jerome and Augustine]
'Extracted from ch. iv of Lecky's "Morals from Aug... | Edward Morgan Forster | W. E. H. Lecky | History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'St Augustine, Some scattered notes.
'Have glanced at his work On Marriage & Concupiscence, part of his attack on t... | Edward Morgan Forster | St Augustine | 'On Marriage and Concupiscence' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Following notes on life and thought of Pelagius] 'From a good article in the Biographie Universelle.' | Edward Morgan Forster | Michaud | article on Pelagius | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Following heading 'St Augustine'] 'Some questions raised rather than solved in Figges' [sic] "Political Aspects of th... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Neville Figgis | The Political Aspects of St Augustine's City of God | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts quoted from and discussed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include St Jerome, Letters ('Loeb... | Edward Morgan Forster | St Jerome | Select Letters of St Jerome | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'St Basil (329-379) [...] is a Father easily disposed of, and a glance at the second volume of letters in Loeb shall s... | Edward Morgan Forster | St Basil | Letters (vol.II) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Forster's material on the Sophists and others is drawn from part II ("Byzantium A.D. 313-565") of F. A. Wright's A Hi... | Edward Morgan Forster | F. A. Wright | A History of Later Greek Literature | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [following heading Sophocles of Constantinople] 'I have run through his Ecclesiastical History with amusement and with... | Edward Morgan Forster | Socrates of Constantinople | Ecclesiastical History | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [following heading 'Bakunin (1814-1876)] 'Reading Carr's pitiless and ungenerous account of him, I am often carried ou... | Edward Morgan Forster | E. H. Carr | Michael Bakunin | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts from which passages transcribed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942-1943) include Marcel Proust,... | Edward Morgan Forster | Marcel Proust | Le Temps Retrouve | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In his diary (1 March 1922) Forster recorded, while on the boat returning from India, his early impressions of Proust... | Edward Morgan Forster | Marcel Proust | Du Cote de chez Swann | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include reflections on Australia from Charles Darwin's... | Edward Morgan Forster | Charles Darwin | The Voyage of the Beagle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include anecdote about Boer prisoners and their guards... | Edward Morgan Forster | A. P. Wavell | Allenby: Soldier and Statesman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much ad... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jean Bruller | Le Silence de la Mer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much ad... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jean Giono | 'Prelude de Pan' | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much ad... | Edward Morgan Forster | Honore de Balzac | Illusions perdues | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much ad... | Edward Morgan Forster | Andre Gide | Journal | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Poems transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include Stefan George's verses opening 'Du schlank und re... | Edward Morgan Forster | Stefan George | 'Du schlank un rein wie eine flamme' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Poems transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include Stefan George's verses opening 'Du schlank und re... | Edward Morgan Forster | Charles Baudelaire | 'Hymne' ('A la tres-chere, a la tres-belle') | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Ordeal of Mark Twain by a bothered and bothering American of the psychoanalysing 20s has succeeded in bothering m... | Edward Morgan Forster | Van Wyck Brooks | The Ordeal of Mark Twain | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [under heading 'Lord Acton Some "shining precepts" for the historical student]
E. M. Forster transcribes passage op... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Lord Acton | A Lecture on the Study of History | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Noted by E. M. Forster in his Commonplace Book (1944), beside quoted lines 'Thought shall be the harder / Heart the ke... | Edward Morgan Forster | Arnold Toynbee | A Study of History (vol I) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcribed by E. M. Forster in his Commonplace Book (1944):
'On Hydon's top there is a cup
And in that cup there ... | Edward Morgan Forster | | A Handbook for Travellers in Surrey, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944) include two short quotations, from Bede ('Two most wicked spirits ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Bede | Ecclesiastical History (Bk 5 ch 13) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944) include two short quotations, from Bede ('Two most wicked spirits ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henri-Frederic Amiel | Fragments d'un Journal Intime | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944) include description of domestic life from Charles Waterton, Wander... | Edward Morgan Forster | Charles Waterton | Wanderings in South America | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944-45) include account of Ancient Egyptian burial customs, as discover... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Henley | Appendix no. 2 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1945) include extracts (on transience of pleasure in nature) from Ruskin... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Ruskin | Introduction to Notes on Turner drawings | Print: Book |