Word: forster
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...literary journals, the English Review (London, circa 1909) and the Transatlantic Review (Paris, circa 1923). He possessed a rare perception of genius in others. The list of writers Ford published early reads like a mail-order come-on to some 20th century great-writers anthology: Conrad, Galsworthy, Pound, E.M. Forster, Hardy, H.G. Wells, Henry James, Wyndham Lewis, James Joyce, and a chesty 25-year-old American whom Ford enraged by referring to as "young Hemingway." "Hurray!" H.G. Wells once shouted at a dinner for Ford. "Fordie's discovered another genius! Called D.H. Lawrence...
Many of the society members society had eliminated many personal values from life. "I don't like technology," M. I. T. student John Forster said, "and this is my way of escaping from...
Another novel with a homosexual theme? Ho-hum. But Maurice, announced last week for publication in about a year, is by the late great English novelist E.M. Forster, and so rates as a major literary event. Written in 1913, Forster's sixth novel was withheld by the author of A Passage to India until after his death because, according to his literary executor W.J.H. Sprott, "He thought there would be some stir about it and he did not want to be involved." Forster's own homosexuality is dealt with movingly by his authorized biographer, P.N. Furbank...
...Forster rejected the customary methods of ranking novelists by greatness or arranging them according to their effect on their times. Instead, in Aspects of the Novel, he imagined all the novelists of the past 200 years scribbling away in matched pairs around a table in a chamber as big as the British Museum reading room. Samuel Richardson with Henry James (for "tremulous nobility"); H.G. Wells with Charles Dickens (as "humorists and visualizers"). Forster in his various aspects could be paired with many in that room. With James, because he had James' grasp of the profound moral and emotional stakes...
...change, he thought, unless human nature alters. If, against all odds, that happens, he wrote, "it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people -a very few people, but a few novelists are among them-are trying to do this." Forster was one of them...