| Evidence: | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 24 September 1911:
'It's something to be near fine country [Simla] [...] Whether it is something to have the novels of Hardy with you, I doubt. He is a poet, and the few novels of his I've read were unsatisfying. However serious the edifice, the ground plan of it is farce. He's a poet [...] and only comes to full splendour in his poems. In them his narrow view of human, and especially female, character doesn't matter, and Wessex and Destiny at last stand clear out of the mist.' |
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| Century: | 1850-1899, 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Edward Morgan Forster |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1 Jan 1879 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Thomas Hardy |
| Title: | novels |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 20041 | |
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| Author: | E. M. Forster | |
| Editor: | Mary Lago and P. N. Furbank | |
| Title: | Selected Letters of E. M. Forster | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1983 | |
| Vol: | 1 | |
| Page: | 125 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | E. M. Forster, Mary Lago and P. N. Furbank (ed.), Selected Letters of E. M. Forster (London, 1983), 1, p. 125, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20041, accessed: 03 June 2023 | |
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