Word: forstered
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...young Forster eased from the suburban middle-class of his childhood into the academic world of Cambridge where he chose liberalism for his politics and writing for his profession. In the first two decades of this century, his stories and novels achieved a narrow critical appreciation, and finally in 1924, with the publication of A Passage to India, Forster won fame and commercial success. His novels are wry and mannered, reflecting British culture from the inside out, compassionate and ironic. And the best of them are among the best of a great period in the English novel...
With Lytton Strachey, Maynard Keynes and Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Forster was a part of the elite Bloomsbury Group, where the world of intellect perched to watch the world of men stagger and fall. Everyone called him Morgan, and of those that knew him, he was loved by most...
...Forster's was the great age of scruples that tried to save the world with decency and left it in the muck instead. It was a dying age; he knew it, regretted it and would not renounce...
...blind to the movement of history and not unsympathetic. "The backward races are kicking," he once wrote, "and more power to their boots." (But, Mr. Forster, the poor have no boots). He did not belong to history; his temperament was too ironic to believe in the future and too traditional to want to. He was forever looking backward, fondly brooding over his disintegrating times. Too fascinated with the corpse to get on with the funeral...
...Forster was discreetly homosexual. That would mean little to us, had it not meant much to him. As things were, a 1913 visit to Edward Carpenter--socialist, ex-clergyman, homosexual--seems to have awakened in Forster a sense of his sexual deviance as a kind of sublime alternative to the philistine morality of his age. The novel Maurice (1914) is a product of that awareness; and now, fifty-seven years later, it has been published...