| Evidence: | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 1 January 1917:
'For the last hour I have occupied myself with copying extracts into my "War Anthology" [...] I have put in "your" Milton passage and next to it a passage from Pater -- that in which he describes the longings of Marcus Aurelius for the Ideal City [...] (The passage is in Marius the Epicurean -- at the end of the chapter called Urbs Beata) [...] It is somehow very tranquil to copy out passages such as these, and the very labour of writing seems to bring one nearer to those who wrote them in the past.' |
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 1 Jan 1917 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Egypt | ||||||||||
| Time: | evening | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Alexandria | ||||||||||
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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/Red Cross worker |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | Egypt |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Walter Pater |
| Title: | Marius the Epicurean |
| Genre: | Fiction, History, Philosophy |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 20557 | |
| Source - | ||
| 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: | 248-249 | |
| 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. 248-249, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20557, accessed: 03 June 2023 | |
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